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Career Counseling: Traditional and Online Approaches. Chapter 4 Dr. Bill Bauer. Career Counseling Defined.
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Career Counseling: Traditional and Online Approaches Chapter 4 Dr. Bill Bauer
Career Counseling Defined Consists of those activities performed or coordinated by individuals who have credentials to work with other individuals or groups of individuals or groups of individuals about occupations, life/career, career decision making, career planning, career pathing, or other career development related questions or conflicts.
Two Phases of Career Counseling • Client goal or problem identification • Establishing a working relationship and defining roles • Developing an understanding of the client’s characteristics and environment • Make a diagnosis of the client problem • Resolution of the problem • Making an intervention • Evaluating the impact of the intervention • Terminating the intervention if it is successful
Post-Positivist (modern) Approach • Present the problem and Goals • Search for exceptions • Identify strengths. • Develop and carry out a plan.
Positivist Approach to Career Counseling • Identify the decision Maker • Relationship building • Assessment and Goal Setting • Problem Solving • Termination * What paradigm will you operate from?
Career Counseling Competencies • See Handout. • http://www.ncda.org/pdf/counselingcompetencies.pdf
The Career Counseling Process • 5 stages • Establish a counselor-client relationship • Diagnosing the problem • Goal setting • Intervention • Gathering Information • Identifying Transferable skills • Multi-cultural Considerations • Facilitating Decision Making • Guided Fantasy • Improving Time Perspective • Evaluation
Assessment Devices on Line • The Career Key • http://www2.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/l/lkj/ • http:/weber.edu/communication/com105/Discussion/TheKeirseySorter.html • www.jan.gov • http://www.doleta.gov/programs/onet/
Career Counseling Competencies 13 Individual/Group Assessment • Knowledge about instruments and assessments for personal characteristics. • Knowledge about instruments and techniques to assess leisure, interests, learning style, life roles, self-concept, career maturity, vocational identity, career indecision and work preference. • Knowledge about instruments and techniques to assess work environment conditions.