Terms and Definitions
Major Theories
Counseling with Diverse Populations
Assessment
Career Counseling in Schools
100
The term meaning "the total constellation of roles played over the course of a lifetime."
What is career?
100
This person invented one of the most commonly used career and personality type groupings that can be represented by the letters RIASEC.
Who is John Holland?
100
This gender is more likely to experience barriers and stereotypes on their career paths.
Who are women?
100
Checklists, games, fantasies, forced-choice activities, card sorts, and structured interviews are all example of this type of assessment.
What is informal assessment?
100
Counselors working in this school level often use activities such as career days and field trips to introduce children to different jobs.
What is elementary?
200
The term meaning "the lifelong psychological and behavioral processes as well as contextual influences shaping one's career over the life span."
What is career development?
200
This major theory is based on the application of Bandura's social learning theory to career decision making.
What is Learning Theory of Career Counseling?
200
This term refers to the attitude that occurs counselors assume that one value system (their own) is superior and preferable to another.
What is ethnocentrism?
200
This type of assessment should consider validity, reliability, fairness related to diversity, and the presence of comparison when determining if the test is useful.
What is formal assessment?
200
These people have been found to have the greatest influence in the career development of children.
Who are parents?
300
The term meaning "a formal relationship in which a professional counselor assists a client or group of clients to cope more effectively with career concerns.
What is career counseling?
300
This theory was described by its creator as a "differential-developmental-social-phenomenological career theory."
What is Life-Span, Life-Space Theory?
300
This is the number of stages that typically occur in racial identity models.
What is five?
300
This term indicates if a formal assessment measures what it is supposed to measure.
What is validity?
300
This adolescent identity stage describes a person who has yet to experience an identity crisis or exploration but has committed to an occupation or set of goals, values, and beliefs.
What is foreclosed?
400
The term meaning "the systematic attempt to influence the career development of students and adults through various types of educational strategies."
What is career education?
400
This stage in Linda Gottfredson's career theory corresponds with a child's increased ability to think more abstractly and becoming aware of social class and prestige.
What is Stage 3?
400
The opposite of emic, this term refers to perspectives that maintain that career development interventions for members of minority groups should be the same as the career development interventions used for the majority.
What is etic?
400
This type of formal assessment is designed to allow the client and counselor to explore characteristics that may help identify occupations and jobs for consideration.
What is Learning More About Clients?
400
Along with career and social development, the National Standards require competency in this area.
What is academic?
500
The term meaning "a systematic program of counselor-coordinated information and experiences designed to facilitate individual career development."
What is career development program?
500
According to Anne Roe, this child-rearing environment is most likely to result in children's physical and psychological needs being met.
What is acceptance of the child?
500
According to Cass, there are this number of stages in an LGBTQ person's identity development.
What is six?
500
This type of result indicates a point or range on a normal distribution where the where the client's score falls compared with the scores of those in the norm group.
What are percentile scores?
500
This tool for working with middle school children can be used to chart their academic, life-role, and career decision making.
What is a portfolio?