LifeStyle and Career (NCE and CSL 663)

Bob volunteers at a local community mental health agency on the weekends. He said volunteering helps him feel like he is contributing to the needs of the community. This is an example of a:

citizen role.

3 multiple choice options

For Gottfredson, a major issue in individual career counseling is the degree to which clients have unnecessarily restricted their occupational options. Which of the following examples best describes a U.S.-based client unnecessarily restricting their occupational options?

A female client deciding not to pursue an occupation based on internalized gender bias that suggests "woman don't work in that field."

3 multiple choice options

High levels of career uncertainty and occupational dissatisfaction can lead to what kind of distress?

Psychological and physical distress

3 multiple choice options

The National Career Development Association recommends all of the following training areas for career counselors except

physical aspects of career readiness.

3 multiple choice options

Super's developmental tasks include crystallization, implementation, stabilization, consolidation, and which of the following?

Specification

3 multiple choice options

Many individuals are changing careers more and more frequently. Consider a client who is asking you to explain why this trend exists. What do you tell them?

One explanation is that upward mobility is less of a factor as organizational structures move away from "ladders" for their employees to "climb."

3 multiple choice options

A CCI helps clients clarify and articulate the private meanings they attach to their career behavior. What is the CCI?

Career Construction Interview

3 multiple choice options

Social cognitive career theory draws heavily from:

Albert Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory

3 multiple choice options

According to Anne Roe's personality theory of career choice, people choose occupational fields based on their ______________, which were influenced by the childhood environments that they experienced.

need structures

3 multiple choice options

Roe's suggests that the relationship between early childhood experiences and subsequent career behavior is mediated by the "structure of psychological needs that develop due to the pattern of frustrations and satisfactions experienced in childhood." Therefore, unsatisfied needs could be _________________. for career choices.

motivators

3 multiple choice options

The third dimension of CIP, known as executive processing domain, suggests that negative self-talk leads to:

career indecisiveness

3 multiple choice options

SCCT is particularly useful in addressing two areas of career concern:

performance attainment and persistence at overcoming obstacles

3 multiple choice options

Constructivist career counseling relies on the idea that people construct meaning through decisions they make and:

actions they take

3 multiple choice options

According to Super, establishment and maintenance are in which of the following developmental stages?

Adult

3 multiple choice options

The idea that feelings in one area of life affect feelings in another area of life is known as

spillover hypothesis.

3 multiple choice options

What key event greatly expanded testing and placement activities in the United States, thus increasing the emphasis on vocational choice?

world war II

3 multiple choice options

The CASVE cycle involves processing skills of: (a) communication, (b) analysis, (c) synthesis, (d) valuing, and (e):

execution

3 multiple choice options

The primary organization for professional career counselors is the

National Career Development Association.

3 multiple choice options

What definition best describes the term "life roles?"

Our "boxes of life," or the different facets of our life, that organize and shape our engagement with society.

3 multiple choice options

One factor that influences life-role salience is

the dominant culture

3 multiple choice options

Advocating for social justice can occur in career development interventions through which of the following ways?

Identifying community resources and establishing linkages to assist clients' needs

3 multiple choice options

The three parts of Super's segmental theory are lifespan, life space, and

self-concept

3 multiple choice options

Parsons's tripartite model for vocational guidance later became known as the

trait-and-factor approach.

3 multiple choice options

Career construction theory incorporates three perspectives into one approach: differential, developmental, and _____________

dynamic

3 multiple choice options

Diversity among clients requires _________________. be considered when constructing and implementing career development interventions.

context

3 multiple choice options

A major assessment used when applying the CIP approach is the:

Career Thoughts Inventory (CTI)

3 multiple choice options

In the cognitive information-processing pyramid,

knowledge of self and occupations form the foundation; decision-making skills and metacognitions build upon it.

3 multiple choice options

Counseling is often referred to as social justice work. Which of the following N C D A Career Counseling Competencies identifies the need for career counselors to engage in advocacy for social justice?

Advocate for the career development and employment of diverse populations.

3 multiple choice options

Which of the following was the first to shift the focus of career development interventions to that of an ongoing process?

Donald Super

3 multiple choice options

Your team is organizing a career fair. Your colleague suggests that the team prioritizes cultural sensitivity and encourages that each team member is aware of their own values and how their cultural assumptions affect the development of the career fair. Your colleague is exercising what?

Emphasizing multicultural career development

3 multiple choice options

Super’s career rainbow, a depiction of his definition of career,

All of the above

3 multiple choice options

Social learning theory identifies four factors that influence career decision making, including all of the following except

self-observation generalizations.

3 multiple choice options

The chaos theory of careers stresses that career development is

influenced by unplanned events.

3 multiple choice options

Valuing pluralism and represents the fourth task of Hansen's (2002) six career development tasks confronting adults.

inclusivity

3 multiple choice options

A client arrives to your offices unsure of what they are interested in as an occupation. After learning about the client, you decide your next steps. Which of the following would be the most appropriate next steps to working with this client?

Administering the Self-Directed Search assessment

3 multiple choice options

Holland codes consistent with R are

I and C

3 multiple choice options

Career construction theory is a based approach

narrative

3 multiple choice options

The term "planned happenstance" is associated with the theory of

Krumboltz

3 multiple choice options

A child is watching the television and begins to take notice that many of the anchors are of a specific-gender expression. The child may consider that this occupation is designated to a specific sex role. What stage of development is this child in?

Two: Orientation to Sex Roles

3 multiple choice options

The work of James Cattell, Alfred Binet, and Walter Bingham contributed extensively to the emphasis of ______________ in career counseling.

testing

3 multiple choice options

You are a career counselor for an adult, female-identifying individual who is considering the engineering profession as an occupational choice. They address a concern that the profession is "dominated by masculinity." Under Gottfredson's Theory of Circumscription, Compromise, and Self-Creation, how could you conceptualize what is happening within the client?

This person's self-concept is interacting with their occupational stereotypes.

3 multiple choice options

Holland's Theory emphasizes what?

Personality typology

3 multiple choice options

Social cognitive theory was proposed by

Lent, Brown and Hackett

3 multiple choice options

Jared decides to see a career counselor after feeling debilitated in their career choice. They have been trying, for several years, to create a network that lends itself to career opportunity but have not been successful in finding opportunity. Jared is considering further education and the counselor suggests Jared conceptualizes what this next "chapter" of Jared's story entails. What approach is this task based in?

Narrative

3 multiple choice options

Narrative approaches help in developing:

personal agency

3 multiple choice options

Careers are manifestations of our attempts to derive meaning from our _____________.

experiences

3 multiple choice options

Career development in the early part of the 20th century emphasized what?

Appropriate occupations and vocations

3 multiple choice options

The main goal of the trait-and-factor approach is to

identify the degree of fit between the person and the occupation.

3 multiple choice options

When meeting with a client they ask you, "What's the difference between career counseling and career coaching?" How do you respond?

Career counseling is a formal relationship in which a professional counselor assists a client or group of clients to cope more effectively with career concerns. Career coaching doesn't have to involve a formal relationship or a professional counselor and tends to focus on more advice-giving.

3 multiple choice options

Friedman’s theory of global “flattening” proposes the following except

that the process has no "down" side.

3 multiple choice options

Constructivism is a concept that accepts that people

are active organizers of their own experiences.

3 multiple choice options

According to the authors, the emerging theories of career counseling tend to do all of the following except

focus on objective scores rather than the client's subjective experience.

3 multiple choice options

Gottfredson (1996) suggests that, traditionally, career development interventions occur during what stage?

Three: Orientation to Social Valuation

3 multiple choice options

Given the centrality of work in people's lives, the lack of _____________ for young people makes the "school-to-work" transition perplexing

institutional support

3 multiple choice options

Career development acknowledges that individuals' lives comprise interacting life roles that influence each other over time. Therefore, career development is which type of the following processes?

Lifelong

3 multiple choice options

In constructivist terminology, fruitfulness refers to the assumption that

counseling should result in a changed outlook or new perspective on some aspect of life.

3 multiple choice options

A client you work with simply feels "stuck." They do not know what career to pursue and they don't know what is out there. Each session they complain about feeling "stuck." How could you conceptualize this client utilizing Krumboltz's learning theory of career counseling?

The client is experiencing the absence of a goal, or career indecision

3 multiple choice options

The theory that has generated more research than any other is that of

Holland

3 multiple choice options

Researchers have struggled to validate assumptions of Roe's theory because of its:

retrospective nature

3 multiple choice options

Learning theory of career counseling intends to:

Help clients resolve current career concerns and equip them with a powerful task-approach skill for coping with future changes in work and personal conditions

3 multiple choice options

The theory that includes a strong element of spirituality is

integrative life planning

3 multiple choice options

According to Savickas, all career counseling involves helping clients resolve difficulties in decision making by increasing the client's

All of the above

3 multiple choice options

A client enjoys working with their hands and enjoys working outdoors. This client likely has a high level of what Holland personality typology?

Realistic

3 multiple choice options

The Cognitive Information Processing (C I P) approach is rooted in the three-factor Parsonian model for making career choices. These include self-understanding, occupational knowledge, and:

making a choice

3 multiple choice options

Half of all U.S. workers experience job-related stress and think that their skills are being:

underutilized

3 multiple choice options

A client has a high degree of fit between their personality type and their job. This client has a high degree of:

congruence

3 multiple choice options

A person's Holland code can be determined by

All of the above

3 multiple choice options

According to Ann Roe, the three kinds of child-rearing environments are:

emotional concentration, avoidance, and acceptance

3 multiple choice options

Linking self-worth with work becomes problematic when:

It's based purely on success

3 multiple choice options

Social cognitive theory focuses closely on

addressing performance attainments and persistence in overcoming obstacles.

3 multiple choice options

Still learning (7)

You've started learning these terms. Keep it up!