Chapter 2- understanding and applying theories of career development Flashcards
who are 2 thinkers of the developmental career theory
SUPER and GOTTFREDSON
what is a developmental career theory
highlights how career behavior changes across developmental stages.
what is person-environment theory
using occupational and self-awareness to make a decision about one’s career.
describe SUPER’s theory of career counseling
career development takes into account one’s personal (needs, values, skills) and situational (peers, groups, labor market) that looks at the many roles a person takes on in their life and uses these roles to clarify someone’s self-concept.
what aspect of life does ROE’s theory look into
Roe’s theory points to the importance of early life experiences in career development
What does GOTTFREDSON’s theory address regarding gender
Gottfredson’s theory addresses how sex-role stereotyping and social class influence the career aspirations of both men and women. This also takes into account the compromises people make to satisfy their aspirations.
what does HOLLAND’S work help us predict
individual behavior (job satisfaction, job performance, and occupational stability) within work environments
what happens when a person lacks support in their career life
when people lack support and/or are misinformed, they often disregard good options because they lack confidence or adhere to beliefs that keep them stuck
who are the theorists for work adjustment?
René Dawis
Lloyd Lofquist
what is the orientation for work adjustment theory
Trait-factor
Career choice/
adjustment
what are the key constructs of the work adjustment theory
Satisfaction Satisfactoriness Person-in-an-environment Correspondence
What theory is founded by Super, is developmental, follows a person across their lifespan across their career by involving their self-concept and adapting their career which has a high amount of research and moderate multicultral consideration?
life span/life space
what theory was made by GOTTFREDSON, is developmentally/sociologically oriented towards career choice, that talks about circumscription compromise, has low research but high multicultulral consideration
Circumscription,
Compromise,
and
Self-Creation
What theory was founded by ANNE ROE, focuses on personality theory and psychodynamic work, and looks into early childhood experienes relating to the hierarchy of needs, has low research and low multicultural consideration
Personality
Theory of Career
Choice
what theory is founded by HOLLAND, and involves the person-environment as a point of creating choice, which addresses things like congruence, consistency, differentiation, and identity. This theory has high research but low multicultural consideration
Vocational
Personalities
and Work
Environments
what theory was founded by KRUMBOLTZ and involved social learning for career choice and development, with a focus on social learning, obdservations, self-awareness, world view, task approach skills and planned happenstance. this theory has a low research background and medium multicultural consideration
learning theory of career counseling
what theory was founded by Robert Lent,
Steven Brown,
Gail Hackett, oriented towards Social cognitive
career choice
development, and focused on Self-efficacy, Outcome expectations, Personal goals, Triadic reciprocal model with high research backing and high multicultural consideration
Social Cognitive
Career Theory
what theory was founded by Mark Savickas and oriented towards differential development and dynamic views with a focus on vocation, personality, life themes, adaptability, and career style interviews. This theory has moderate research backing and high multicultural consideration
Career
Construction
Theory
what theory was founded by Vance Peavey Larry Cochran, oriented towards constructivist narratives, and focused on meaning making, career issues, life history, and a future narrative. This theory has low research backing but high multicultural consideration
Postmodern
what theory was founded by L. Sunny
Hansen, oriented towards contextual career choice and adjustment, and focused on social justice, connection’s, diversity, spirituality, integrated life planning inventories. This theory has low research backing, but high multicultural consideration
Integrative Life
Planning
what theory was founded by Robert Pryor
and Jim Bright, oriented towards self-organization and change and phenomenology, and focused on attractors, patterns, and fractals. This theory has moderate research backing and high multicultural consideration.
Chaos Theory of
Careers
what are the 4 reasons SUPER disagreed with the theories of GINZBERG
(a) did not take into account research related to the role of interests in career decision making, (b) failed to operationally describe choice, (c) made a sharp distinction between choice and adjustment, and (d) lacked a clear articulation of the process of compromise as it relates to career choice
How did SUPER label his theory as regarding its orientation
differential-developmental-social-phenomenological career theory
what are the 3 parts (segments) of the SUPER theory
(a) life span, (b) life space, and (c) self-concept.
what model does SUPER’S theory create
Career Development Assessment and Counseling (C-DAC) model
what is a key assumption of the life span life space theory
people change over time and the needs of a job can be filled by different aspects of different people.
what are the 5 stages of a life span life space theory
(growth, exploration, establishment, maintenance, and decline or disengagement)
what 3 factors affect a person’s career pattern
context (family, SES), personal (aptitude, skill, personality) and adaptability
what does developing a self concept have to do with deciding a career
it is a synthesis of and compromise as one develops that causes life satisfaction that is dependent upon fulfilling roles that are congruent with one’s self-concept.
what is the major emphasis of the life span life space theory over PARSON’S ideas
a career choice is not a single point in time but rather changes over our development in our lifespan.
why is adaptability so important for the life span life space theory
we change, so should our jobs and this means we need to be continually aware of such to make proper choices.
what is career maturity
career decision-making readiness of children and adolescents but this term is being phased out to be replaced by career adaptability as the young experience this more so.
is career development in early life the same and age related?
yes, later in life it is different and not age related.
what is career adaptability
adults cope with their changing work and working conditions, adults make an impact on their environments and their environments make an impact on them
what aspects of PIAGET does career adaptability align with
Piaget’s model of adaptation based on assimilation and accommodation
describe the growth stage
childhood to 13 years old, develop a sense of self and worldview, progress through the substages of fantasy, interest, and capacity by using their innate sense of curiosity, first to engage in occupational fantasies, and then through exploring their environment, children develop a sense of mastery and control over their environment and their ability to make decisions.
describe the exploration stage (adolescence)
14-24 years old, crystallizing and specifying occupational preferences
what are the 3 substages of the exploration stage
tentative, transition, and trial
describe the crystalline stage of exploration stage
use occupational and self-information acquired in the growth stage to learn more about the world of work and begin to clarify what kind of work they might enjoy.
describe the establishment stage (early adulthood)
ages 25 to 45,
what are the 3 sub stages of the establishment stage
stabilizing, consolidating, and advancing
describe the stabilization substage of the establishment stage
evaluating whether the occupational preference he or she has implemented provides adequate opportunity for self-concept expression
what is the consolidating substage of the establishment stage
focusing on becoming a dependable producer and creating a positive reputation in the option that has been selected.
what is the advancing substage of the establisment stage
ocusing on understanding what is necessary for success and then developing those competencies often leads to gaining more responsibility
describe the maintenance stage (middle adulthood)
ages 45 to 65 with 3 substages of holding, updating, and innovating
describe the holding stage of the maintenance stage
those that are stuck and don’t update their skills
describe the updating and innovating stage of the maintenance stage
being able to increase and expand their skills and are able to teach new comers