Professional Orientation & Ethical Practice
NECA & NCDA are both professional associations devoted to the specialization of
Career Counseling
This is the process in which an individual makes sense of a host culture's value system in relation to his or her own.
Acculturation
This is the most common type of sampling method involving selecting an easily accessible population that most likely does not fully represent the population of interest.
convenience sampling
This person developed the lifespan, life-space career theory, a developmental approach to career counseling, that involved 5 life stages and numerous developmental career tasks.
Donald Super
This refers to how accurately an instrument measures a given construct.
Validity
When counselors are unable to use encryption software while performing distance counseling, they are ethically required to
Refrain from providing their services over the Internet
lineal-hierarchical
This type of experimenter effect refers to the instances when the presence of the investigator affects participant responses independent of any intervention.
Hawthorne effect
This term refers to the significance an individual places on the role of career in relationship to other life roles.
A Likert-type scale, is an example of this type of scale, which classifies and assigns rank-order to data.
ordinal scale
This civil rights law specific to educational settings guarantees that students with disabilities have access to free appropirate public education (FAPE)
Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act (IDEA)
This describes how groups of people are thought to be identified by physical characteristics and is a social and political classification system historically based on a genetic and biological background.
race
This type of statistical test compares two means for one variable.
t-test
This legislation sought to expand university counselor education programs through increased funding with the aim of increasing the number of trained counselors in secondary schools to raise the number of students enrolled in higher education who were pursuing math and science careers.
National Defense Education Act (NDEA) of 1958
This is a commonly used calculation that allows a comparison to be made between a person's raw score and a norm group.
Percentile rank or percentile
This ethical principle refers to counselors‘ responsibility to actively promote the health and well-being of their clients
Beneficence
Oppression by force and oppression by deprivation
This is a type of qualitative research design that seeks to describe the meaning or essence of participants'' lived experiences.
phenomenology
This is a type of work-related strain that results in emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and reduced personal accomplishment.
burnout
This type of assessment is designed to measure what knowledge and skills an individual has acquired in a particular area due to instruction or training experiences.
achievement tests
This legal case set a precedent that counselors have a legal and ethical responsibility to WARN others if their client makes a threat to cause serious and foreseeable harm to a third party.
Tarasoff v. Regents of the University of California
This racial identity development model can be used for all people of color and includes 5 statuses: conformity, dissonance, immersion and emersion, internalization, integrative awareness.
Helm's (1995) People of Color Racial Identity Development Model (POCRID)
This type of study allows a researcher to combine and synthesize the results of numerous similar studies for particular outcome or dependent variables.
meta-analysis
This refers to the process by which individuals eliminate career alternatives they believe are not compatible with their self-concept.
circumscription
This occurs when the examiner's interpretation of the test results provides unfair advantage or disadvantage to the client.
interpretive bias