Career Counseling QUIZ ANSWERS - CH 5

Cochran was interested in helping clients improve their life stories by increasing their feelings of self-efficacy in building their careers.

TRUE

Cochran suggested that clients begin making intentional choices to spend their time in activities consistent with their new career goals. Doing so reflects which of the following steps in Cochran's model?

Crystallizing a decision

Enacting a role

Changing a life structure

Constructing reality

Founding a future narrative

Composing a life history

Elaborating a career problem

Enacting a role

Cochran used this phrase to describe the process by which the counselor and client develop a common understanding of the career problem that prompted the client to seek career counseling.

Crystallizing a decision

Enacting a role

Changing a life structure

Constructing reality

Founding a future narrative

Composing a life history

Elaborating a career problem

Elaborating a career problem

When the action episodes confirm the client's hope that the career path being considered is one which will be rewarding, Cochran would say this has occurred.

Crystallizing a decision

Enacting a role

Changing a life structure

Constructing reality

Founding a future narrative

Composing a life history

Elaborating a career problem

Crystallizing a decision

Savickas' theory places relatively more importance on the development of one's sense of self than does Cochran's theory.

TRUE

This step in Cochran's narrative therapy calls for clients to experience first-hand what careers of interest actually entail through activities such as job shadowing.

Crystallizing a decision

Enacting a role

Changing a life structure

Constructing reality

Founding a future narrative

Composing a life history

Elaborating a career problem

Constructing reality

According to Cochran, this episode requires attention to the patterns of subjective meaning a client has regarding his or her past.

Crystallizing a decision

Enacting a role

Changing a life structure

Constructing reality

Founding a future narrative

Composing a life history

Elaborating a career problem

Composing a life history

To accomplish this step, Cochran suggested using techniques such as life lines and asking clients to project beyond the present day what they would like to have happen.

Crystallizing a decision

Enacting a role

Changing a life structure

Constructing reality

Founding a future narrative

Composing a life history

Elaborating a career problem

Founding a future narrative

Which of the following is most closely associated with a person's internalization of traits others have attributed to him or her?

Self as Actor

Self as Agent

Self as Author

All of the above

Self as Agent

Self as Actor

Object career services

Self as Agent

Subject career service

Self as Author

Project career services

Career Counseling

Self as Author

Career Education

Self as Agent

Vocational Guidance

Self as Actor

Which of the following is most closely associated with a child's introjection of guides and incorporation of models?

Self as Actor

Self as Agent

Self as Author

All of the above

Self as Actor

This episode in Cochran's narrative approach reflected his recognition that achieving career goals may require significant modifications in one's situational circumstances such as child care arrangements.

Cystallizing a decision

Enacting a role

Changing a life structure

Constructing reality

Founding a future narrative

Composing a life history

Elaborating a career problem

Changing a life structure

Which of the following is most closely associated with the integration and continued development of a unique career identity?

Self as Actor

Self as Agent

Self as Author

All of the above

Self as Author

Narrative theories of career development are most closely associated with postmodern thought.

TRUE

Which of the following is most closely associated with the exercise of choice over one's educational and educational plots?

Self as Actor

Self as Agent

Self as Author

All of the above

Self as Agent

Savickas' approach to career counseling has remained relatively unchanged since he first unveiled it in 2002.

FALSE

A major emphasis of narrative theories is helping clients replace the stories they have told themselves with the objective reality.

FALSE