Deck 8: Career Development Plans: Designing a Clients Whats Next

Question 1

Counselors serve both individual clients and organizations.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Historically, career development has taken a rather mechanistic trait-factor approach to fit clients to jobs and learning options.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

The field of career counseling has become increasingly influenced by economists but should not be understood as a "socio-political" activity.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Most research suggests that while career planning is a high need, it is not a major component in the experience of most secondary students.

Question 5

Research shows that to sustain superior performance, IQ and technical skills matter more than emotional competence.

Question 6

A working alliance in career planning:

A) Demands that the client follows the counselors lead
B) Helps articulate unmet needs, identify strategies, and evaluate remedies
C) Makes feelings the most important variable in decision-making
D) Requires that a licensed professional counselor be present

Question 7

Which one of the following was noted as a key skill in the Career Counselor's Handbook written by Figler and Bolles?

A) Reflecting feelings
B) Open-ended questioning
C) Creative imagining
D) All of the above

Question 8

The changing workplace suggests that:

A) Employers are placing less responsibility on workers for managing their careers, health care and retirement options
B) Counselors need to know more about learning options
C) All students should attend college, since technical education is of less importance
D) Counselors need to be more directive in designing clients' life transitions

Question 9

Comprehensive career development planning:

A) Is a linear sequential process
B) Will increasingly attend to the needs of the "boomer generation"
C) Attends to the emotional domain of helping individuals search for satisfac- tion, quality, and meaning in every choice
D) All of the above except a

Question 10

The following would improve our understanding of childhood career develop- ment and its application to career development programs:

A) Engaging in discovery-oriented qualitative research
B) Continuing the application of theories developed by Super and Gottfredson to childhood
C) Collaborating with disciplines working in such areas as childhood cognition, social-emotional development, affect regulation, and self-efficacy
D) All of the above

Question 11

Match the following:

-Career Counselor's Handbook

A) Sunny Hansen
B) Goleman
C) Career Architect
D) Figler and Bolles
E) Mark Savickas

Question 12

Match the following:

-Emotional Intelligence

A) Sunny Hansen
B) Goleman
C) Career Architect
D) Figler and Bolles
E) Mark Savickas

Question 13

Match the following:

-Integrative Life Planning

A) Sunny Hansen
B) Goleman
C) Career Architect
D) Figler and Bolles
E) Mark Savickas

Question 14

Match the following:

-67 competencies, 19 career stoppers

A) Sunny Hansen
B) Goleman
C) Career Architect
D) Figler and Bolles
E) Mark Savickas

Question 15

Match the following:

-Career construction theory

A) Sunny Hansen
B) Goleman
C) Career Architect
D) Figler and Bolles
E) Mark Savickas

Question 16

It is now more appropriate than ever to match people to jobs they can keep for life.

Question 17

Comprehensive career counseling provides several benefits including educational, social, and economic gains.

Question 18

Facilitating comprehensive development planning means that counselors need to operate within well-defined roles, gain knowledge about the needs of various groups of clients, and understand changes in the workplace.

Question 19

The traditional trait-factor matching model is useless when a person needs a job right away or simply needs a job to meet survival needs.

Question 20

Career counselors have learned that career counseling does not involve psycho- logical processes at all.

Question 21

It is relatively easy to separate vocational concerns from emotional factors, family interactions, and social well-being.

Question 22

The Integrative Life Planning (ILP) approach combines accepted theories about how people choose jobs or educational pursuits, transition through life stages and cycles, and negotiate psychological and environmental barriers.

Question 23

The Integrative Life Planning (ILP) approach consists of six key tasks, including connecting family and work and exploring spirituality.

Question 24

Although the need for career planning assistance is well documented, many efforts fail due to poor, misguided intentions.

Question 25

Carrying out development plans is not necessary, since most individuals succeed in new roles by simply repeating past successful behaviors.

Question 26

Higher social classes perceive work as integrally tied to personal satisfaction and lower social classes tend to view work primarily as a means to economic survival.

Question 27

Immediate job opportunities are not as important as personal interest to clients with basic survival needs.

Question 28

Those who put equal priority on work and their personal/family life are "dual- centric" and have less overall stress.

Question 29

The "Third Age," the period of life beyond the career job and parenting, is typically a time of decreased stress for employees.

Question 30

The "fit model" describes comprehensive career planning.

Question 31

Career development models are useful to organizations that are attempting to attract and keep talented people.

Question 32

To promote a developmental culture in an organization, employees must be given incentives and taught how to assume ownership of and responsibility for their own growth.

Question 33

Career development has become accepted as a lifelong strategy.

Question 34

Humans will be the most productive when their employers provide challenging tasks before, during, and after feedback, and ongoing learning opportunities.

Question 35

Research has demonstrated that economically, career counseling has had no effect on lower rates and shorter periods of unemployment.