Career Devlopment Flashcards
Lifestyle and career development have been emphasized
Since the beginning of the counseling in guidance movement and are still major areas of concern
One trend is that women are moving into careers that in the past for populated by males. Women workers are often impacted by the glass ceiling phenomenon. Assuming that a counselors behavior is influenced by the phenomenon, which statement would he most likely make when conducting a career counseling session with a female client who wants to advance to a higher position?
“Let’s be rational: a woman can only advance so far. You really have very little if any chance of becoming a corporate executive. I’m here to help you cope with this reality.”
Most research in the area of career development and its relationship to students indicates that
A very high proportion of students in high school and at the junior high and middle school level wanted guidance in planning a career. Career interest or more stable after college
A dual career family is one in which both partners have jobs to which they are committed to on a somewhat continuous basis. Which statement is true of dual career families
Tool career families have higher incomes than the so-called traditional family in which only one partner is working
In the dual clearer family, partners seem to be more self-sufficient then in the traditional family. In a dual career household, the woman
It’s typically secure in her career before she has children
Studies indicate that
Students want more vocational guidance then they receive
Statistics reveal that
On average, a worker with a bachelors degree earns over $10,000 a year more than a worker with a high school diploma
When professional career counselors use the term leisure they technically mean
The time the client has away from work which is not being utilized for obligations
In terms of leisure time in dual career family/couples
Dual career families/couples have a less leisure time
A client who says, “I feel I cannot really become an administrator in our agency because I am a woman” is showing an example of
Gender bias
One major category of career theory is known as the trait factor also called the trait and factor approach. It has also been dubbed the actuarial or matching approach. This approach
Attempts to match the worker and the work environment. The approach thus makes the assumption that there’s one best or single career for the person
The trait and factor career counseling, actuarial, or matching approach (which matches clients with a job) is associated with
Parsons and Williamson
The trait and factor or actuarial approach asserts that
B & C (testing is an important part of the counseling process AND a counselor can match the correct person with the appropriate job)
In 1909 the landmark book entitled choosing a vocation was released. The book was written by Frank Parsons. Parsons has been called
The father of vocational guidance
Which statement is not true of the trait and factor approach to career counseling
The approach is developmental in this focuses on career maturity
Edmond Griffith Williamson’s work (is the so/called Minnesota Viewpoint) purports to be scientific and didactic, utilizing test data from instruments such as the
Minnesota occupational rating skills
The trait and factor approach fails to take _______ into account
Individual change throughout the lifespan
Anne Roe suggested a personality approach to career choice
Based on the premise that a job satisfies an unconscious need
Roe Was the first career specialist to utilize a two dimensional system of occupational classification utilizing
Fields and levels
All of the following are examples of Anne Roe’s “fields” except:
Unskilled
all of the following are examples of Anne Roes “levels” except:
Outdoor
Roe spoke of three basic parenting styles: overprotective, avoidant, or acceptant. The result is that the child
Will develop a personality which gravitates toward people or away from people
Roe’s theory relies on Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in the sense that in terms of career choice
Lower-order Needs take precedence over higher-order needs
Some support for Roe’s theory comes from
The Rorschach and the TAT
In terms of genetics, Roe’s theory with assert that
Genetics help to determine intelligence and education, and hence this influences one’s career choice
According to Anne Roe, who categorized occupations by fields and levels
The choice of A career helps to satisfy an individual needs
837 year old white male states during a counseling session that he is working as a clerk at Main Street plumbing. This verbalization depicts the clients
Job or position
Roe Recognized the role of the unconscious mind in terms of career choice. Another theorist who emphasize the unconscious processes in this area of study was
Bordin 
Edwin Bordin Felt that difficulties related to job choice
are indicative of neurotic symptoms
Another career theorist who drew upon psychoanalytic doctrines was A. A. Brill. Brill emphasized _______ As an ego defense mechanism
Sublimation
A client who becomes a professional football player because he unconsciously likes to hurt people would be utilizing ___________ according to Brills theory of career choice
Sublimation
Today, the most popular approach to care choice reflects the work of
John Holland
Holland categorized ___________ Personality orientations which correspond to analogous work environments
Six
Most experts in the field of career counseling would classify roe, brill, and Holland as _______ theorist
Personality
Counselors who support Jon Holland’s approach believe that
An appropriate job allows one to express his or her personality
Holland mentioned six modal orientations: artistic, conventional, enterprising, investigative, realistic, and social. A middle school counselor is most likely
Social
Holland theory would predict that the vice president of the United States would be
Enterprising
A client who wishes to work on an assembly line with fit into Holland’s _______ typology
Realistic
Holland’s psychological means career personality theory would say that a research chemist is primarily the ______ type
Investigative
Hollands artistic type seems to value feelings over pure intellect or cognitive ability. Which of the following clients would not be best described via the artistic typology?
833 year old female drill press operator
Holland did indeed believe in career stereotypes. In other words the person psychologically defines himself or herself via a given job. Thus, a bookkeeper or a clerical worker would primarily fit into the _______ category
Conventional
In regard to an individuals behavioral style or so-called modal orientation, Holland believed that
Most people are not pure personality types and thus can best be described by a distribution of types such as a realistic, social, investigative (RSI)
Holland believed that
A given occupation will tend to attract persons with similar personalities
Holland relied on a personality theory of career choice. Robert Hoppocks theory, based on the work of ________ is also considered a personality approach
Henry Murray
Developmental career theorist view career choice as an ongoing or so-called longitudinal process rather than a single decision made at one point in time. The pioneer theorist in this area—- who were the first to forsake the matching models—— were
Ginzberg, Ginsburg, Axelrad, and Herma
Ginzberg And his colleagues now believe in a developmental model of career choice which asserts that
All of the above (The process of choosing a career does not end at age 20 or adulthood AND Career choice decisions are really made throughout the lifespan AND Career choice is reversible)
Initially, Ginzberg And his associates viewed career choice as irreversible in the result of compromises between wishes and realistic possibilities. This theory identified three stages of career development
fantasy (birth to age 11), tentative ( ages 11-17), and realistic (age 17 to early twenties)
The most popular developmental courier theorist is Donald super. Super emphasizes
The self-concept
Soopers lifespan theory emphasizes _______ life stages
Five
Super’s lifespan theory includes
The life career rainbow
