FAMILY MATTERS Family Influence in Career Development

1. FAMILY MATTERSFamily Influence in Career Development Robert C. Chope, Ph.D. San Francisco State University rcchope@sfsu.edu

2. Good Morning Madison!!

3. The Doyles Like father like son Father, Judge James Doyle, ran unsuccessfully for governor in 1954

5. Purpose of Presentation • Provide an argument for exploring in depth family issues in career development. • Create a means to organize information and ask personal and family related questions as an aid to the career development process. • Show how cultural expectations, class, and ethnicity add to our understanding of family influences. • Illustrate how the family can contribute to career development.

6. Part I • Provide an argument for exploring in depth family issues in career development

7. Illustrations • Four examples illustrate the point

8. Jack London Mother Knows Best

10. Zak Unger Same story 100 Years Later

12. Wendy Wasserstein Mother’s Disappointment

14. George Wein Father’s Disapproval

16. The Data Are In Family Matters

18. What do families want? • Fame? • Al Franken, Joshua Bell, Vincent Van Gogh • Chuck Ross resubmitted Jerry Kosinski’s Steps which one the 1969 Nat. Book Award • Income stability? • Happiness? • Community involvement? • Don’t do what I did!!

19. Families influence career choices – why not … • Accentuate the positive • Understand the negative • Let the career choice unfold like a story • And have the client create a narrative

20. Don’t Work Alone, Use the Family • Family of origin affects how people choose a career path • Background, history, mobility, support, conflicts, nurturing and exposure to new ideas • Families and significant others can be used in the career development process • Counselors are in the village, on the team

21. Family Influence Versus Happenstance • John Krumboltz and his career development • Serendipity Theory • Describe three events of happenstance • The use of mentors • Name three important mentors

22. New Models In and out economy-Actor model Organizational matrices reduce linearity Never ending job search-Dental model Buffet-Walk on Model Project driven work-Portfolio career model Imagination and Creativity are key

23. Part II • The purpose of Part II: • To create a means to organize information. • To ask personal and family related questions as an aid to the career development process.

24. Biography, Blogs and Tweets • A nation of biographers • Create chronicles and memory books • Create web sites reflecting interest like a family history site • Create a blog to discuss anything from food to politics • Keep the personal network tuned in with face book, twitter, linked in, et al.

25. E-Portfolios and Journaling • Just write • Discover a focus • Contribute daily • Look at the journey • Give the details (like James Boswell and Samuel Johnson) • Let others comment with postings

26. New Focus on Context • Peers , teachers, coaches, community officials, and others • Families and interaction patterns • The need to know yourself and your context before you know your career

27. New Contextual Approaches Creating narratives, contextualizing career development and utilizing constructivism give added meaning to the counseling process

28. Family Dictates: Family Histories Can Be Filled With Intrigue Struggle may ensue Two well-known examples Andre Agassi Rachel Naomi Remen

29. Andre Agassi Reinventing success

30. Portrait of Andre Agassi His Story “Open” • Hated tennis but played to please father • Anxiety/pressure/dropped from school • Turned pro to a life he hated • His drug use shows how counselors must treat more than the career decision • He was able to make his career his own

32. Rachel Naomi Remen • The Jewish Doctor finds wiggle room

34. Savickas’ Career Styles Interview • Models-Who do you admire? Why? • Books-Favorite book? Why? • Magazines? (Web sites?) • TV (Games?) • Movies-Which on a stranded island • Leisure-Free time activities • School subjects

35. Career Styles (cont) • Mottos-Do you have a motto or favorite saying? • Ambitions • What do your parents want? • (What do your friends want?) • What are your ambitions? • What do you day dream about?

36. Career Styles (cont) • Decisions- Describe an important decision you have made and how you were able to make it. Counseling moves from “fit” to belonging, from similarity to uniqueness, from interests to career path, discovering the “hidden reasons” that guide the story.

37. Systematic Methods for Gathering Information • Genogram • Retrospective Questionnaires

38. Career Genogram • Picture the origin of family career expectations and congruence • Family success and failure • Patterns of career choice • Contextual influences and genetics

39. Some Questions With the Genogram • Who do you identify with? • Whose aspirations are similar to yours? • What are the dominant values? • Are there myths, ghosts, legends? • Are there secrets? • What are the interactions like? • What are the pressures?

40. Retrospective Questionnaires • Amundson’s Significant Other Questionnaire • Taylor’s Family Work History • Family Constellation Questionnaire • Chope’s Family Protocol

41. Chope Protocol • What kind of career related information does the family provide? • What kind of tangible assistance is provided? • What kind of emotional support is provided?

42. Chope Protocol (cont) • Is your client concerned about the impact of the career choice on the family? • What disruptive events affected your client or other members of the family? • What are the actions of the family members who are asked to help and the actions of those not asked to help?

43. What Were the Disruptions? • Untimely moves • Tragedies • Homelessness • Incarceration • Divorce • Military service • Non events

44. How Does the Family Help?In Summary • Career information possibilities, alternatives, traditions • Emotional support • Emotional pressure • Available resources • Networks

45. Part III • The purpose of Part III: • Show how cultural expectations, environment, class, and ethnicity add to understanding family influence.

46. Diversity • Cultural expectations • Examples • The Korean one year old • The Thai Monk

49. Considering Multicultural Context Multiethnic and diversified groups remain worse off than white peers Diminished employment opportunities are a significant source of stress

50. Cultural Stressors Biological stress Physical stress Psychological stress Family stress Social stress Cultural stress