Deck 3: Understanding and Applying Recent Theories of Career Development

Question 1

How might you develop your own personal theoretical orientation of career counseling? What factors might you consider?

Answer 1

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Question 2

Which activities practiced in class thus far can you see yourself using in your counseling practice? How does that fit in with your theoretical orientation?

Answer 2

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Question 3

How would you describe the differences between Krumboltz's LTCC theory and Lent, Brown, and Hackett's SCCT?

Answer 3

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Question 4

How well do the career development theories discussed in this chapter address persons from diverse backgrounds? What are some strengths and weaknesses that stand out?

Question 5

How do theories today address the reality that many individuals will change jobs numerous times throughout their lifetime?

Question 6

Identify and discuss the two trends of emerging theories including an example of each trend.

Question 7

Identify and give and example of two of the four forces that shape self-efficacy beliefs.

Question 8

What are the three components are Career Construction Theory that address the "what, how, and why: aspects of career development?

Question 9

Draw and describe the pyramid of information-processing domains outlined in the CIP Approach.

Question 10

How would you describe Hansen's Integrative Life Planning Approach to a client?

Question 11

Give two examples of narrative counseling interventions.

Question 12

According to the authors, the emerging theories of career counseling tend to do all of the following except:

A) help individuals manage multiple job chances across their work lives without losing their sense of self and social identity
B) be explicitly attuned to diverse populations
C) address the complexity of career decision making
D) focus on objective scores rather than the client's subjective experience.

Question 13

The sources that shape self-efficacy beliefs include

A) external learning and physiological states and reactions.
B) personal performance accomplishments and internal learning.
C) internal learning and social persuasion.
D) vicarious learning and social persuasion.

Question 14

Social cognitive theory focuses closely on

A) addressing performance attainments and persistence in overcoming obstacles.
B) career advancement and persistence in overcoming obstacles.
C) career flexibility and persistence in the job search.
D) performance related evaluation and persistence in overcoming external constraints.

Question 15

In the cognitive information-processing pyramid,

A) decision-making skills and metacognitions form the foundation; knowledge of self and occupations build upon it.
B) knowledge of self and others form the foundation; decision-making skills and cognitions build upon it.
C) knowledge of self and occupations form the foundation; decision-making skills and metacognitions build upon it.
D) knowledge of self and occupations form the foundation; job-hunting and interviewing build upon it.

Question 16

In the executive processing domain of the CASVE model, control and monitoring are essential for deciphering the information needed

A) to resolve a family problem.
B) for a job search .
C) to resolve a career problem and determine when to move to the next phase.
D) to make an executive decision.

Question 17

The function of the executive processing domain in the cognitive information processing approach is to

A) streamline storage of information and make it more efficient.
B) initiate, coordinate, and monitor the storage and retrieval of information.
C) monitor the retrieval of information.
D) expand the storage of information.

Question 18

According to Savickas' Career Construction Theory, career adaptability is comprised of all of the following except:

A) Skills
B) Attitudes
C) Beliefs
D) Competencies

Question 19

According to Brown, values serve as standards by which people evaluate their

A) aptitudes.
B) skills.
C) interests.
D) own actions and the actions of others.

Question 20

The Values-Based Approach is based on all of the following assumptions except

A) making choices that coincide with values is essential to satisfaction.
B) high-functioning people have well-developed and prioritized values.
C) values are shaped by both genetics and environment.
D) values are assessed through qualitative, not quantitative, means.

Question 21

Hansen's integrative life planning model is unique in that its emphasis is on integrating

A) the individual and support groups.
B) work, home, and social life.
C) the mind, body, and spirit.
D) intrarole and interrole conflict.

Question 22

The tasks of the ILP model include all of the following except

A) finding work that needs doing in changing global contexts.
B) weaving our lives into a meaningful whole.
C) connecting family and work.
D) making the most money with the least effort.

Question 23

The three post-modern approaches include all of the following elements except

A) narrative.
B) contextual.
C) constructivist.
D) subtextual.

Question 24

Constructivism is a concept that accepts that people

A) are active organizers of their own experiences.
B) are passively receiving information about their own experiences.
C) construct meaning through the actions of others.
D) rarely revise their perceptions based on life experience.

Question 25

Chaos Theory of Careers stresses that that career development is:

A) A planned goal-directed process
B) Linear
C) Influenced by unplanned events
D) Predictable

Question 26

In constructivist terminology, fruitfulness refers to the assumption that

A) counselors should always provide fruit to a client because it helps stimulate thoughts about change.
B) counseling should result in a changed outlook or new perspective on some aspect of life.
C) counseling should result in a complete transformation of ideas from a seed to a fruit.
D) counseling should result in higher salaries for clients.