Deck 8: Career Counseling Strategies and Techniques for the 21st Century

Question 1

Discuss the stereotypical assumptions people have pertaining to what career counseling "looks like." Discuss whether this stereotype is accurate.

Answer 1

No answer

Question 2

Discuss ways in which students think that career counseling strategies need to b revised to be more appropriate for today's context.

Answer 2

No answer

Question 3

Discuss the importance of groups in delivering career interventions. When are groups appropriate, and when are they not?

Answer 3

No answer

Question 4

Discuss why many students in counseling programs think that career counseling is not interesting.

Question 5

What are some things a career counselor can do to increase the likelihood of positive outcomes for their clients?

Question 6

Discuss three causes of client resistance and three guidelines you might follow to cope with these causes.

Question 7

Amundson and his colleagues suggest the acronym PLEASE as an aid for expressing mattering to client. Please explain each aspect of this acronym.

Question 8

Differentiate between the types of questions one would approach with subjective assessment versus objective assessment strategies.

Question 9

Describe the three phases of career counseling outlined in the text.

Question 10

Historically, the counseling profession developed or emerged from all of the following except

A) vocational/career guidance.
B) psychological measurement.
C) personality development.
D) Freudian psychoanalysis.

Question 11

The practice of career counseling has a close theoretical and practical relationship with

A) psychotherapy.
B) hypnosis.
C) psychoanalysis.
D) psychosomatic.

Question 12

Crites contends that career counseling is described by all of the following except that it

A) is more effective than psychotherapy.
B) should follow psychotherapy.
C) can be therapeutic.
D) is less difficult than psychotherapy.

Question 13

Students of counseling and mental health practitioners often lack enthusiasm for the practice of career counseling because they view it as a process that

A) is very directive and limited to test administration and interpretation.
B) has outlived its professional usefulness.
C) is limited to providing people with job hunting information only.
D) is too broad in scope and too difficult to master.

Question 14

Career counselors provide support to clients by all of the following except:

A) telling the clients what the solution to their problem is
B) facilitating hope, confidence, and purpose within clients
C) addressing anxiety, confusion or depression related to career concerns
D) helping clients cope with challenges they encounter as they manage their career development

Question 15

Static definitions of career development and career counseling interventions are

A) adequate because they treat the process as a one-time event.
B) inadequate because they treat substance, methods, and context as fairly constant.
C) inadequate because they assume very little change in how one defines work.
D) inadequate because they do not assume that substance, methods, and context as well as definitions for work are rapidly changing.

Question 16

The basic skills career counselors need are

A) resume writing and job interviewing.
B) the same as for any other counselor.
C) the same as those needed by economists.
D) psychoanalytic in nature.

Question 17

Providing caring, trust, and empathy to clients is an example of the kind of support known as

A) informational.
B) appraisal.
C) Emotional.
D) Psychoanalytic.

Question 18

In order to help people make meaning out of their life experiences, career counselors pay attention to the client's:

A) abilities
B) obstacles
C) subjective experience
D) interests

Question 19

General phases of career counseling include all of the following except

A) beginning or initial.
B) middle or working.
C) placement.
D) ending or termination.

Question 20

Regardless of the theoretical perspectives used by career counselors, broad topics addressed in the first phase include all of the following except the client's

A) view of self and the world.
B) potential employers.
C) family.
D) significant work and life experiences.

Question 21

Goals in career counseling have all of the following attributes except

A) specific.
B) observable.
C) time specific.
D) global.

Question 22

The acronym PLEASE has been proposed as a guide to

A) provide informational support.
B) meet the client's expectations.
C) show clients that their views matter.
D) setting career goals.

Question 23

A career style assessment model used as a strategy to help clients identify subjective themes that guide their career development has been developed by

A) Carlsen.
B) Super.
C) Neimeyer.
D) Savickas.

Question 24

The NCDA offers this type of certification to counselors who are licensed and have received supervised career counseling training

A) Master Career Counselor (MCC)
B) Specialized Career Counselor (SCC)
C) Certified Career Counselor (CCC)
D) Licensed Career Counselor (LCC)