Chapter 13
Career Counseling in Community Settings
Career Counseling in Community Settings
This organization offers career services in libraries, job centers, and shelters.
What is the One-Stop Career Center or American Job Center?
These offer free career services to the public.
This theory emphasizes stages like exploration, establishment, and maintenance.
What is Super’s Life-Span, Life-Space theory?
It explains how people grow in their careers across life stages.
This term means combining multiple theories to meet the needs of clients.
What is integrative counseling?
It uses the best from each theory to customize support.
This pioneer is known as the “Father of Vocational Guidance.”
Who is Frank Parsons?
He introduced the Trait-and-Factor theory in 1909, emphasizing self-knowledge, knowledge of occupations, and true reasoning.
This acronym stands for the largest professional association for counselors in the U.S.
What is ACA (American Counseling Association)?
The ACA sets ethical guidelines, promotes professional development, and advocates for the counseling profession.
This population often needs career support due to housing or income challenges.
Who are clients experiencing homelessness or poverty?
Career services can help break the cycle of hardship.
Adults often face this mid-career emotional experience.
What is a career plateau or career crisis?
They may feel stuck or unsure about future goals.
This framework looks at the client’s culture, family, and context.
What is Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model?
It helps counselors see the many levels affecting a client.
This theory by Holland matches people and environments using six personality types.
What is the Holland Code or Holland’s Theory of Career Choice?
It uses RIASEC types: Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional.
This acronym refers to the premier career development association in the U.S., affiliated with ACA.
What is NCDA (National Career Development Association)?
NCDA develops resources, competencies, and certifications for career development professionals.
This program helps people transition from prison to work.
What is reentry employment counseling?
It prepares justice-involved individuals for the workforce.
This issue affects adult women returning to the workforce after raising children.
What is reentry or career interruption?
They may need support adjusting to workplace changes.
This approach respects the uniqueness of each client and uses tools that fit them.
What is individualized career counseling?
No one-size-fits-all – every client deserves a tailored plan.
This developmental theory outlines stages like growth, exploration, establishment, maintenance, and disengagement.
What is Super’s Life-Span, Life-Space theory?
It explains career development as a lifelong process with multiple life roles.
This organization sets national standards and practices for school counseling programs.
What is ASCA (American School Counselor Association)?
ASCA promotes academic, career, and social/emotional development for K–12 students through its National Model.
This type of career barrier includes racism, sexism, or ageism.
What are systemic barriers?
These are external obstacles that require advocacy and support.
This adult group may need support transitioning from military to civilian jobs.
Who are veterans?
They may struggle to translate military skills into civilian terms.
This term describes using both theory and data to make decisions.
What is evidence-based practice?
It ensures interventions are backed by research and theory.
This theory focuses on the role of learning experiences and chance events in shaping career decisions.
What is Krumboltz’s Social Learning Theory of Career Decision Making?
It views career choice as influenced by reinforcement, modeling, and unplanned events.
This acronym refers to the U.S. Department of Labor’s free occupational database used in career counseling.
What is O*NET (Occupational Information Network)?
O*NET provides detailed job descriptions, outlooks, skill requirements, and wages, and is a key resource for counselors and clients.
This process helps match community programs to client goals.
What is resource mapping or program alignment?
It ensures clients get connected to the right supports.
This type of learning continues during adulthood through workshops or degrees.
What is lifelong learning?
It helps adults stay current, skilled, and confident.
This final step in counseling helps clients make decisions and take action.
What is implementation planning?
It turns insights into a real, achievable career path.
This modern theory incorporates self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and personal goals.
What is Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT)?
Developed by Lent, Brown, and Hackett, SCCT builds on Bandura’s work and is useful for diverse populations.
This acronym refers to the systems that track trends in employment and training needs within specific regions or industries.
What is LMIS (Labor Market Information System)?
LMIS provides data on employment, job vacancies, salaries, and labor demand. Counselors use it to guide clients toward viable opportunities.