Career Counseling Flashcards by Jordan Sinclair

Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH)

info about 300 broad occupations grouped into - 25 occupational categories
state specific job market info

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Occupational Information Network (O*NET)

Replaced the Dictionary of Occupational Titles
- Organised using Standard Occupational (SOC) System

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Guide for Occupational Exploration (GOE), or New Guide for OE

Info baout compesenation, growth fathe, education/training/ect.
-includes 900 occupations
-classified using 16 US Dept. of Ed Clusters

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Computer Assisted Career Guidance Systems (CACG)

helps through basic steps of vocational decison-making.
-DISCOVER, SIGI, PLUS, Choices

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Informational Interviewing

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Role Overload

expectations exceed time and energy

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Role Conflict

multiple roles conflict (incompatible)

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Role Spillover

Carryover of demands into another role.
Negative and Positive Consequences

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4 Traits of Career Adaptability (Savikas)

Concern for future work life
curiousioty for exploring
Confidence to pursue goals

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List Trait and Factor Career Theories

Trait and Factor Theory
Theory of Work Adjustment
Holland’s Theory of Types
Meyers-Briggs Type Theory

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Trait and Factor Theory Founders

Parsons and Williamson

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Basic Assumptions of Trait and Factor Theory

everyone has unit set of traits
occupations require specific traits to be successful
choice of occupation involve matching them

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Steps of Trait and Factory Theory

Gain Self-Understanding
Acquire Knowledge about work
integrate the info

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Theory of Work Adjustment Founder
and Basic Assumptions

Dawis and Lofquist
concerned with actual performance
satisfaction and satisfactoriness

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Holland’s Theory of Types Basic Assumptions

Individual and Work environments are dominated by two or three different types.
Satisfaction = job congruent with personality

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Holland’s Theory RIASEC Acronym

Realistic
Investigative
Artistic
Social
Enterprising
Conventional

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Myers-Briggs Type Theory Contributors

Mother and daughter; influenced by Carl Jung
4 dimensions, 16 types

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Myers-Briggs 4 Dimensions

Intro vs. Extroversion
Sensing vs. Intuition
Thinking vs. Feeling
Judging vs. Perceiving

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Brown’s Holistic Values-Based Theory of Life Choice Satisfaction
Assumptions and Contributors

Brown and Crace; influenced by Rokeach

Assumes high-functioning people have crystallized and prioritized set of values

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According to Brown, people will benefit from career counseling when….

fail to develop strongly crystallized values
experiencing conflicting values

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Lifespan, Life-space Theory
Contributor and Basic Assumptions

Donald Super
Shift from one-time vocational choice to understanding of career that develops over the lifespan
Impetus for Paradigm shift

Lifespan, Life-Space Theory: 3 Fundamental Aspects

Lifespan
Life-space
Self-Concept

Super’s Lifespan, Life-space Successive Stages has __stages and __ substages

5, 15

Super’s 5 Lifespan Stages

Growth (childhood)
Exploration (Adolescence)
Establishment (Early Adult)
Maintenence (Middle Adult)
Disengagement (Late Adult)

Career Recycling

Super's term - people can enter stages they have been in before

Role Salience

Super

Supers Life-Space Roles

Child, Student, Leisurite, Citizen, Worker, Partner, Homemaker, Parent, Pensioner

Super's Life-Career Rainbow

illustrate the 9 roles

Super's Self-Concept

indivualds perception of their personality characteristics, abilities, and preferences Developes over time

According to Super, Career Choices reflect one's...

Self-Concept

Super's Stage 1 & Subs

Growth - curiosity -fantasy -interest

Super's Stage 2 and Subs

Exploration - crytalizzing -specifying -implementing

Super's Stage 3 and Subs

Establishment - Stabilizing -Consolidating -Advancing

Super's Stage 4 and Subs

Maintenence - Holding -Updating -Innovating

Super's Stage 5 and Subs

Disengagement -Decelerating -Retirement Planning -Retirement Living

Career Transition Theories

1. Schlossberg Transition Theory 2. Hopson and Adams Model of Adult Transitions

Schlossberg Transition Theory 4 types of transtions

1. Anticipated - will happen for most over a lifetime (getting a job, retiring) 2. Unanticipated - not expected (laid off) 3. Chronic Hassles - pervasive (long commute to work) 4. Nonevents - never happen despite desire for it to (promotion)

Model of Adult Transition Founders and Basic Assumptions (

Hopson and Adam's -Two types of transitions: 1. Voluntary 2. Involuntary -Seven Stages

Hopson and Adam's Adult Transition Model Developmental Stages

1. Immobilization 2. Minimization 3. Self-Doubt 4. Letting Go 5. Testing out 6. Searching for Meaning 7. Internatlization

List Career Decision Making Descriptive Theories

1. Tiedeman and O'hara 2. Janis and Mann's Conflict Model of Decision Making

List Career Decision Making Prescriptive Theories 1. 3. Gelatt's Decision-Making Model

Tiedeman and O'hara

Janis and Mann's Conflict Model of Decision Making

Gelatt's Decision Making Model Basic Assumptions

All decisions have similar qualities, you have rationalize and analyze info to accurately predict outcome of your choice

Cognitive Information Processing Approach (CIP)

Peterson, Sampson, Reardon, Lenz; Use Pryramid of Info Processing

Integrating Life-Planning-Career Decision Making Founder and Assumptions

Hansen Explores how work is intertwined with other life roles to form a meaningful career

Integrating Life-Planning-Career Decision Making; 6 Major Life Tasks

1. Finding working that needs doing in changing global contexts 2. Attend to physical, mental, emotional health 3. Connecting family and work 4. Valuing pluralism and inclusivity 5. Exploring matters of spirituality and life purpose 6. Managing personal transitions and organizational change

Pyramid of Information Processing: 3 Domains

1. Knowledge 2. Decision-Making Skills (CASVE (Communication, Analysis, Synthesis, Valuing, Execution)) 3. Executive Processing Domain

Executive Processing Domain in CIP Approach

Third domain of Pyramind of Info Processing includes 1. internal self-talk messages 2. self-awareness 3. temporal monitoring and control function

Gelatt's Decision-Making Model Process Steps

1. Recognizing decison sneeds to be made 2. Collect data, survey courses of action 3. Determine outcomes and apply prediction and value system for analyzing 4. make a choice, could be terminal (final decisions) or investigatory (needs additional info) 5. Nature of decision-making is continuous and cyclical. 5.