Chp 1

Question 1

Career ccounslors help clients and studengts with

Answer 1

1) use rational and intivitive approaches to career desciion making
2) being clear/defining the importance of life roles and values one has
3) coping effectively with ambiguity change and transition
4) developing and maintaining self-awareness (interests values, motivation)
5) developing and maintiaing occuptional and caerre awareness
6) encourgaing lifelong learning
7) educate and plan
8) advising/searching for jobs effectively (even when one is not looking)
9) offering/providing carerr mentoring
10) developing and maintiaing skills in mutilicutural awareness and communication

Question 2

The Why (money, prestige, purpose)

Answer 2

• greek word for work has the same root word for sorrow
• “idleness was akin to sinfulness”
• “with the reformation there was the idea of working to serve a higher purpose”
• 67% of americans are disenegaged at their work
  people are beginning to define early retirement as their dream
• only 34% of americans would choose to work A LONG TIME AT fulfilling job
• at least half of the US workforce is quiet quitting
• a chance to meet new people
• a sense of value and purpose
• boost self-esteem
• career security
• ability to learn new things

Question 3

Industrial Revolution

Answer 3

shifiting the economy from primialry agricultural to one that was grounded in the industrial and manufacturing processes

• Ripple effect = shift in population concentration, with new opportinuties, comes demand to fill roles, need for job placement services, creation of aptitiude and interest assessments

Question 4

Frank Parsons

Answer 4

“it is better to choose a vocation tan merely hunt for a job”

Question 5

The parsonian approach

Answer 5

1) develop clear understanding of yourself, aptitudes, abilities, interests, resources, limitations and other qualities
2) develop knowledge of the requirement and conditions of success, advantages and disadvantages, compensations, opps, and prospects in diff lines of work
3) use “true reasoning” on the relations of these two groups of facts

Question 6

Theory of work adjustment

Answer 6

four stages

Question 7

Person environment correspondence or PEC theory

Answer 7

• person interacts with environment
• both are active and reactive

Question 8

Goal for career counselor

Answer 8

• instill hope
• empower
• facilitate change