Career Development Theories
Focuses on how children and adolescents eliminate career options through circumscription and compromise.
What is Gottfredson's Theory of Circumscription and Compromise?
This term is often defined as any formal or informal technique used to collect data about a client.
What is an assessment?
This association creates standards to guide professional school counselors.
What is American School Counselor Association (ASCA)?
This terms refers to when a counselor assumes their value system is superior and preferable to another.
What is ethnocentrism?
This model is unique in that its emphasis is on integrating the mind, body, and spirit.
What is Hansen's integrative life planning model?
Divides personality and environments types into six categories represented by RIASEC.
What is Holland's theory of vocational personalities and work environments?
These types of assessments have right and wrong answers.
What are tests?
This is the major theme of career development at the elementary school level.
What is awareness?
This term references the process of adopting the traits or social patterns of another group.
What is acculturation?
This is a career planning tool created, developed, and maintained over time by the client.
What is an E-portfolio?
Builds on Bandura's social cognitive theory emphasizing self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and personal goals.
What is social cognitive career theory (SCCT) by Lent, Brown, and Hackett?
Card sorts, values auction, forced-choice, and life role pie are examples of this type of assessment.
What is qualitative?
NCDG framework coding system includes PS-personal social development, ED-educational achievement and lifelong learning, and this domain.
What is CM- career management?
This term refers to culturally specific approaches to counseling rather than more universal (etic) approaches.
What is emic?
What is early adulthood (25-45)?
Focuses on learning experiences and encourages planned happenstance.
What is Krumboltz's social learning theory of career decision-making?
These correlate more highly with work satisfaction than do interests.
What are values?
These individuals have substantial influence over the career development of children and provide the greatest amount of indirect and direct exposure to work.
What are parents?
This term is used to describe how an individual's identities intersect within experiences of power, privilege, and oppression.
What is intersectionality?
What is constructivism?
Introduced by Petereson, Sampson, and Reardon, this theory uses CASVE cycle.
What is cognitive information processing (CIP)?
This website is a replacement for the former Department of Labor publication, The Dictionary of Occupational Titles.
What is O*Net?
This model provides useful information for considering how a child or adolescent's cognitive development interacts with environmental factors to influence career development processes.
What is Children's Conceptions of Career choice and Attainment (CCCA) model?
This framework can help counselors deepen understanding of their own identities, clients' identities, and the ways in which the two may interact. Factors included in this framework are: age, developmental or acquired disabilities, religion and spiritual orientation, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, sexual orientation, indigenous heritage, national origin, and gender.
What is ADDRESSING?
This is the certification offered by NCDA to counselors who are licensed and have received supervised career counseling training.
What is certified career counselor (CCC)?