Career Development Theories
Theory that says people and work environments can be described by 6 personality types (RIASEC).
What is Holland's Theory of Vocational Personalities and Work Environments?
This type of assessment measures occupational preferences.
What is an interest inventory?
Career counseling is most effective when it is this type of process between the counselor and client.
What is a collaborative process?
This ethical process ensures clients understand the counseling relationship, including confidentiality, privacy, and the services being provided.
What is informed consent?
Career counselors should consider a client's cultural background and life circumstances when helping them make career decisions.
True
Developmental theory that describes career development across the lifespan and includes life roles such as student, parent, worker, and citizen.
What is Super's Life-Span, Life-Space Theory?
Name one career interest inventory (that we covered in class).
What is the Self-Directed Search (SDS), O*NET Interest Profiler, Kuder Career Interests Assessment, COPS, Jackson Vocational Interest Survey (JVIS)?
What is considered one of the strongest predictors of positive career counseling outcomes?
What is the therapeutic (working) alliance?
Ethical principle that means clients should make their own career decisions rather than having the counselor decide for them.
What is client autonomy?
The goal of career counseling is to help clients develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to make informed career decisions.
True
Theory that describes the process of formulating occupational aspirations in childhood and adolescence.
What is Gottfredson's Theory of Circumscription, Compromise, and Self-Creation?
Before administering an assessment, counselors should explain this to clients.
What is the purpose of the assessment and how the results will be used?
Clients often revise these throughout the counseling process as they gain more self-knowledge.
Clients often revise these throughout the counseling process as they gain more self-knowledge.
Career counselors should only provide services and administer assessments for which they have this.
What is competence (or appropriate training)?
A successful career counseling outcome is measured only by whether the client chooses a career by the end of counseling.
False. Success may include increased self-awareness, occupational knowledge, decision-making skills, confidence, and more.
This theory teaches clients to recognize and capitalize on unexpected opportunities during career development.
What is Krumboltz's Learning Theory of Career Counseling (Planned Happenstance)?
Career assessment results should be used primarily to ____?
What is facilitate career exploration and explored decision-making?
In which phase of career counseling are assessment, self-exploration, and information gathering most emphasized?
What is the early phase of career counseling?
Ethical principle that requires counselors to protect clients' private information.
What is confidentiality?
Career assessments should always be interpreted independently by the client before discussing the results with the counselor.
False
his model uses the CASVE Cycle to guide clients through career decision making.
What is the Cognitive Information Processing (CIP) Model?
If a client is undecided about a career, the counselor should recommend the occupation that best matches the client's assessment results.
False.