Deck 13: Job Loss and Transitions

Question 1

Which of the following is an example of program strategies for the adult in career transition?

A)​Identifying developed skills, interests and work experiences
B)​Reformulated goals
C)​Focusing predominantly on past events
D)​Both A and B

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Interest identification is a technique that helps adult clients in what way?​

A)​To focus on positive interests
B)​To identify interests in general terms
C)​To enjoy the counseling session
D)​To identify uninteresting tasks and jobs

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Viewing career development as a lifelong process reinforces the importance of:​

A)​Retraining and lifelong learning
B)​Studying human relationships
C)​Focusing on jobs overseas
D)​Being skilled in the use of computers

Answer 3

A

Question 4

What are the four domains a counselor may consider to conceptualize a client's concerns?​

A)​Career, affective, interpretive, culture
B)​Career, information, cognitive-behavioral, culture
C)​Career, affective, cognitive-behavioral, culture
D)​Career, effective, cognitive-behavioral, culture

Question 5

According to the intervention counseling program, there are four technique options for adults in career transition.Discuss two of these techniques, elaborating on what is involved in the technique, and 2-3 specific tasks that can be used with the techniques.

Question 6

In addition to helping clients who have lost their jobs cope with personal problems associated with job loss, what other approach is used with regard to retraining workers?​

A)​Passive approach to retraining
B)​A combination of aggressive and passive actions
C)​Clients are only helped with personal problems associated with job loss
D)​Aggressive action through job search techniques and retraining programs, along with methods of dealing with stress, anxiety and depression

Question 7

Choose the correct statement.

A)​Personal concerns must not be addressed before career counseling
B)​Personal concerns do not become barriers to processing information and making optimal decisions
C)​Personal concerns can be barriers to processing information and making optimal decisions
D)​Stress-related reactions due to job loss cannot lead to emotional instability

Question 8

The differences in the effects of job loss by age suggest:​

A)​Older men react more negatively
B)​Younger men react more negatively
C)​Middle age men react more negatively
D)​No differences in reactions by men

Question 9

To help clients deal with the effects of stress resulting from job loss, counselors should begin with:​

A)​Family counseling
B)​Career resources
C)​Helping clients build coping strategies
D)​Computer-generated information

Question 10

Schlossberg's types of career transitions are anticipated, unanticipated, chronic hassles, and events that do not happen.What does the last one entail?

A)​Hostile boss reactions
B)​Getting a promotion
C)​Being transferred
D)​Being fired

Question 11

The rationale for life learning is based on a continuing need to develop planning strategies to:​

A)​upgrade skills.
B)​meet technological changes and stay abreast of the information explosion.
C)reduce the chances of becoming obsolete.
D)​all of the above.

Question 12

What are some of the unintended consequences of working, and what are the implications of counseling those who have had a job loss with respect to these?

Question 13

Jahoda (1981) captured which of the following unintended consequences of work, highlighting the important psychological outcomes derived from work that are discontinued when one is out of work?​

A)​Reinforcement of personal status and identity and participation in activities associated with work that is viewed as a necessity in the give-and-take of daily life
B)​A daily time structure that is devoted to working and shared experiences and interactions with cohorts and other individuals outside the nuclear family
C)​The opportunity to express purpose and goals of life
D)​All of the above

Question 14

Who suggested that functional/transferable skills can best be identified by using a "quick job-hunting map"?

A)​Bolles
B)​Brown
C)​Holland
D)​Crace and Brown

Question 15

Recent research suggests that a significant number of the unemployed have experienced:​

A)​Mental health problems
B)​Moderate anxiety
C)​Use of illegal drugs
D)​Post-traumatic stress syndrome

Question 16

Briefly discuss procedures for assisting a client in developing a lifelong learning philosophy.

Question 17

Which is the third method suggested in order to identify each client's skills?​

A)​Standardized testing
B)​Transferring skills
C)​Identifying skills developed from previous experiences in work, hobbies, social activities, community volunteer work and other leisure examples
D)​Self-estimates of developed skills

Question 18

The CTI is an instrument used to evaluate dysfunctional thinking and is interpreted using what scales?​

A)​Verbal reasoning, numerical reasoning and space relations
B)​Decision-making confusion, commitment anxiety and external conflict plus a total score
C)​External conflict plus a total score only
D)​Decision-making confusion only

Question 19

List and discuss at least four causes of unemployment in the current job market.

Question 20

In the 1970s, Moos and Tsu suggested two phases of the transition process related to adults in transition.These phases are:​

A)​first focus on elevated stress levels that usually accompany transitions, and second focus on situational influences, circumstances and the client's unique interpretations of past events and current circumstances.
B)first focus on elevated stress levels that usually accompany transitions, and second focus on goals.
C)​first focus on situational influences, circumstances and the client's unique interpretations of past events and current circumstances, and second focus on elevated stress levels that usually accompany transitions.
D)​none of the above.

Question 21

When retraining workers, it is most important to address:​

A)​Levels of intellectual functioning
B)​Aptitudes and achievement needs
C)​Both career and personal needs
D)​Relationship problems

Question 22

While faulty cognitions can lead to a multitude of personal problems, who argues that the career decision-making process is most affected?​

A)​Beck
B)​Doyle
C)​Ellis
D)​Mitchell and Krumboltz

Question 23

What commonalities exist between the components of occupational planning and educational/training information?​

A)​Neither focuses on lifelong learning
B)​Both focus on providing information to assist the adult in making the most effective use of occupational information
C)​There are no commonalities
D)​Both focus on locally compiled information

Question 24

What is the primary purpose in using the interview technique option?​

A)​To assist the client in evaluating work and leisure experiences, training and education in relation to potential occupational choices
B)​To compare interest with identified skills
C)​To identify and evaluate occupational interests
D)​To identify and evaluate developed skills from leisure learning experiences

Question 25

In 1984, Schlossberg's well-known types of transition were identified as:​

A)​anticipated, unanticipated, chronic hassles.
B)​events that happen.
C)events that do not happen.
D)​both A and C.

Question 26

Changing occupational structures and career patterns are major aspects of the current work situation, best described as a period of:​

A)speculation.
B)​transformation.
C)​stability.
D)​certainty.

Question 27

Reciprocal power that is used for locating job openings refers to:​

A)​Listening to the radio
B)​Social networking
C)​Reality TV
D)​Neighborhood discussions

Question 28

The fastest growing jobs report for 2008 to 2018 suggests that:​

A)​Registered nurses will be number one
B)​Engineers will top the list
C)​Business executives will be first in demand
D)​Medical doctors will be near the top of the list

Question 29

What technique options are available for value needs clarification?​

A)​Assessment of values and needs through standardized inventories
B)​Values clarification exercises, which may be accomplished in groups as well as in individual counseling programs
C)​Self-estimates
D)​Both A and B

Question 30

What is an effective method of experience identification?​

A)​Questionnaire
B)​Biography
C)​Autobiography
D)​Interest Inventory

Question 31

Of the four technique options given as intervention strategies for identifying sources of educational/training information, which is the fourth technique option suggested?​

A)​Published materials
B)​The Internet
C)​Computerized career information systems
D)​Locally compiled information

Question 32

In what way should lifelong learning be viewed?​

A)​Cyclic
B)​Static
C)​Continual and ongoing but with intermittent pauses
D)​Both A and C

Question 33

In the career domain, a client suffering from anxiety, tensions and irritability, as a reaction to being fired, needs to remove these barriers to rational thinking in order to do what?​

A)​Enjoy a moment of relaxation
B)​Adequately process information about jobs that may be available
C)​Address aspects of self esteem
D)​Focus on previous negative work experiences

Question 34

One's initial reaction to job loss is similar to:​

A)​Crisis situations
B)​Stress reaction when taking a test
C)​Moving from early career to mid career
D)​Stressful reaction in late career

Question 35

Changing work roles will require many future workers to be: ​

A)​Interested in a wide variety of jobs
B)​Dual career-oriented
C)​Knowledgeable about scientific careers
D)​Flexible and adaptable

Question 36

Ebberwein (2001) suggests various strategies for victims of job loss in order for them to manage the difficult transition.Choose the statement that is not congruent with Ebberwein's advice.

A)​Manage to keep a healthy sense of urgency
B)​Focus on realistic goals and make plans to achieve them
C)​Recognize that you do not need to accept the necessity of change as soon as possible
D)​Carefully review your career options and how you can achieve them in spite of gloomy predictions of future work available

Question 37

In what way is a visit file an important segment for delivering relevant occupational information?​

A)​Provides the names of individuals or organizations who agree to visits and interviews by people interested in obtaining firsthand information about certain occupations
B)​Lists the visits by the client to the counselor
C)​Provides lists of client's visits to Internet sites for work purposes
D)​Lists the visits by the client to the workplace

Question 38

Describe and justify outplacement counseling programs by organizations.

Question 39

Skills identification and the development of new skills have received increasing attention in the workplace.Analyze three methods that can be used to identify each client's skills.

Question 40

Describe how some psychological effects of job loss can be very troublesome.

Question 41

The Self-Directed Search is an inventory that yields scores regarding which areas?

A)​Occupational daydreams, preferences for activities and competencies
B)​Preferences for kinds of occupations and abilities in various occupations
C)​Both A and B
D)​None of the above

Question 42

Each client should be encouraged to adopt a __________ commitment.

A)​on-site off-site
B)​reasonable commuting
C)​job rotation
D)​lifelong learning

Question 43

Briefly describe the coping skills that clients may find helpful in addressing career transitions.

Question 44

Present at least five examples of how faulty cognitions can affect one's ability to work and how they relate to family and fellow workers.