Major Theories
Recent Theories
Diverse Populations
Assessment
Ethics
100
Vocational development is a process of making several decisions, which culminate in choices that represent an implementation of one’s self-concept.
What is Super's Life-Span, Life-Space Theory
100
This theory is unique in that instead of being used in individual counseling, its founder contends that it is a new world view for addressing career development.
What is Hansen's Integrative Life Planning?
100
The six stages of identity development for this population: (a) confusion, (b) comparison, (c) tolerance, (d) acceptance, (e) pride, and (f) synthesis.
What is GLBTQ?
100
(1) learning more about the needs of an individual or group of individuals, (2) learning more about the characteristics of individuals and helping them learn more about themselves, and (3) determining the progress of a person or group of persons in areas related to career development.
What is the purpose of assessment?
100
Counselors make honest promises and honor their commitments to clients, students, and supervisees.
What is fidelity?
200
Person-Environment Fit Theory
Who is John Holland?
200
This label refers to those approaches (e.g., narrative, contextual, constructivist) that emphasize the importance of understanding our careers as they are lived or, to put it another way, our subjective experience of career development.
What is postmodern?
200
When a person assumes that one value system (their own) is superior and preferable to another.
What is ethnocentrism?
200
An instrument assessing content areas in which there are no right or wrong answers.
What is an inventory?
200
NCDA Code of Ethics - Section F
What is providing career services online, technology, and social media?
300
The main counseling goal of this theory revolves around challenging false Self-Efficacy beliefs and/or Outcome Expectation beliefs
What is Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT)?
300
In this theory, the five steps of the CASVE cycle can be used to teach decision-making skills, and the executing processing domain provides a framework for exploring and challenging clients’ dysfunctional metacognition.
What is the Cognitive Information Processing Approach?
300
This law stipulates that employers can consider only essential job functions when hiring or promoting employees.
What is Americans with Disabilities Act?
300
An activity in which a counselor asks one or more individuals to relax, close their eyes, and imagine an ideal day that includes time at a worksite.
What is career fantasy?
300
Independence and self-determination.
What is autonomy?
400
Indecision is desirable and sensible, as it allows the opportunity for clients to benefit from unplanned events.
What is Planned Happenstance?
400
Incorporates three perspectives: differential, developmental, and dynamic.
What is Savickas' Career Construction Theory
400
The five stages of this identity development, each with corresponding counseling implications: (a) conformity, (b) dissonance, (c) resistance and immersion, (d) introspection, and (e) synergy.
What is racial?
400
An instrument is said to have this if it measures what it is supposed to measure.
What is validity?
400
Ethical Standards of the NCDA - Section B
What is confidentiality, privileged communication, and privacy?