Career Development Theories
Recent Career Development Theories
Strategies and Techniques
Career Counseling in Schools
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This is differential-developmental-social-phenomenological career theory
What is Super's Life-Span, Life-Space Theory?
100
These three created social cognitive career theory, which provides a conceptual framework for understanding how people develop career-related interests, make occupational choices, and achieve career success and stability.
Who are Lent, Brown and Hackett?
100
This is an excellent tool, used by counselors, to help their clients discover the internal and external variables affecting their career decisions.
What is Super's Archway of Determinants?
100
This was developed to address the growing need for standardization and accountability in school counseling programs.
What are the National Standards for School Counseling Programs?
200
This theory utilizes the RIASEC scale.
What is Holland's Theory of Types?
200
This approach to career development is rooted in the three-factor Parsonian model for making career choices (self-understanding, occupational knowledge, and bring self-understanding and occupational knowledge together to make a choice).
What is The Cognitive Information Processing Approach?
200
This tool can be used to a)focus on client needs, and, b)help client and counselor know more about the client's self and to provide mechanism for measuring progress.
What is a structured assessment?
200
At this level of career development interventions, students need stimulation of curiosity to encourage engagement in exploratory behavior.
What is middle school?
300
John Krumboltz developed this theory of career counseling, composed of two parts, based on Albert Bandura's theory of counseling.
What is The Learning theory?
300
This theory, developed by Savickas, incorporates three perspectives of career: differential (what different people do), developmental (the various ways people cope with career development) and dynamic (how people use life themes to develop meaning in their career).
What is Career Construction Theory?
300
This term/concept, coined by Schlossberg, Lynch and Chickering, is important for counselors to provide in the counseling environment.
What is 'mattering'?
300
At this stage of development, Super states that a counselor will see their client moving through the tasks of crystallizing, specifying and implementing tentative career choices.
What is adolescence/high school?
400
This clinical psychologist developed a theory of career choice based on her research in the effect of personality factors on artists' expressions of creativity.
Who is Anne Roe?
400
This postmodern approach to career development involves composing a narrative as the primary vehicle for defining the character.
What is the Narrative approach?
400
This tool can be used as both a resource and as a means for clients to receive career counseling, and is considered a modern solution to the problem of long-distance.
What is the internet?
400
At this place in life, students would benefit most from a career center, a service to provide students with help in writing resumes, succeeding in interviews, and looking for prospective job options.
What is college/higher education?
500
This theory describes the process leading to the formulation of occupational aspirations in childhood and adolescence in four different stages.
What is Gottfredson's theory of Circumscription, Compromise and Self-Creation?
500
This theory views career development as an action system that achieves social meaning through an interaction between individual intention and social context.
What is Contextual Theory?
500
This involves the person’s creation of a career pattern, decision making style, integration of life roles, values expression, and life-role self-concepts.
What is career development?
500
This is often used in school settings in order to provide assistance to a larger number of students, as well teach students about career development tasks and draw on the resources of others in order to identify strategies for coping with those tasks.
What is group career counseling?