Deck 12: Career Counseling

Question 1

Confidentiality is more difficult to maintain when EAPs are offered by companies within their place of business.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Measurements of an individual's vocational interest have received very little attention from researchers.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Rehabilitation is the only profession established and mandated by a legislative act of the U.S. Congress.

Answer 3

True

Question 4

Spokane and Oliver reviewed research on career counseling outcome and concluded that positive results of career counseling are negligible.

Question 5

Holland's typology is considered the most influential theory in career counseling theory.

Question 6

Career counseling theories are based on the idea that one's personal development influences one's choice and satisfaction in a career.

Question 7

One of the earliest theories of vocational development was published by Holland.

Question 8

Computer-assisted programs are most useful in career counseling when the client is exploring self motivation.

Question 9

Employee assistance programs have shown remarkably high degrees of success in worker productivity.

Question 10

For a person to obtain vocational rehabilitation services, a referral is required from a physician.

Question 11

Career development and career choice involve complex personal and environmental factors.

Question 12

An effective career counselor tries to help an individual find the best occupation.

Question 13

In Holland's typology, the scientific personality falls under the realistic type.

Question 14

The National Career Development Association (NCDA) has not yet developed specific credentials for career counselors.

Question 15

Contextual approaches to career counseling identifies ways in which family, culture, and environment can be incorporated into counseling.

Question 16

The individual who published one of the first career theories based on the importance of sequential developmental stages was

A) Ginzberg
B) Roe
C) Holland
D) Crites

Question 17

One of the first persons to relate personality factors and developmental stages to career development is

A) Parsons
B) Super
C) Roe
D) Holland

Question 18

Which of the following is not a Holland personality type based on occupational interests?

A) Enterprising
B) Managerial
C) Conventional
D) Realistic

Question 19

Which of the following is not a vocational interest inventory?

A) Strong Interest Inventory
B) Kuder Occupational Interest Survey
C) Self-Directed Search
D) Occupations Finder

Question 20

Which of the following is not appropriate to use with high school students?

A) Edwards Personal Preference Record
B) Differential Aptitude Tests
C) Self Directed Search
D) Kuder Occupational Interest Inventory

Question 21

The inventory based on Jungian personality types is

A) Edwards Personal Preference Schedule
B) Omnibus Personality Inventory
C) Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
D) Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

Question 22

The aptitude battery administered by state employment offices is called

A) The General Aptitude Test Battery
B) The Differential Aptitude Tests
C) The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
D) The Occupational Finder

Question 23

If one were interested in detailed information about employment opportunities, educational and experience prerequisites, and working conditions of an occupation, it is best to use

A) The Dictionary of Occupational Titles
B) The Occupations Finder
C) The Occupational Outlook Handbook
D) None of the above

Question 24

The computer-assisted programs designed for occupational exploration in grades seven to twelve is

A) CHOICES
B) SIGI
C) DISCOVER
D) OCCUPATIONS-FINDER

Question 25

The first employee counseling programs were called

A) Employee Enhancement Programs
B) Employee Assistance Programs
C) Occupational Alcoholism Programs
D) Holistic Occupations Programs

Question 26

Which of the following is not true about rehabilitation counseling?

A) No self referrals are accepted.
B) Eligibility is determined by medical and psychological examinations and vocational evaluations.
C) If eligibility is not established, counselors must inform clients as to the reason.
D) If eligibility is established the counselor by law must set up a goal directed plan.

Question 27

Discuss how career counseling and personal counseling relate in terms of process, goals, techniques and relationships.

Question 28

Describe adult life transitions that may lead to career conflicts or the need to explore careers.

Question 29

Briefly discuss techniques that are special to career counseling.

Question 30

Compare EAP's with EEP's.

Question 31

Describe the activities of placement counselors.

Question 32

List and discuss the duties of vocational rehabilitation counselors.

Question 33

Summarize what trends have emerged from the summaries of research findings about careers.

Question 34

Describe postmodern approaches to career counseling. Select one of these approaches and describe more fully the procedures used.

Question 35

What are the basic assumptions underlying John Holland's career counseling theory. Describe his typical procedure in working with a client who expresses doubts about a career choice.