Social Cognitive Career Theory is of great interest to me. This is the theory I will apply in my counseling approach with others. Through this theoretical lens, I will apply my own career decision making process. I will explore the environmental factors that have influenced me, as well as, my interest. The theory’s building blocks are based on self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and goals. Looking to the start of my college career, I was unsure as to what I wanted to be and do in life. I have always had the drive to be successful and help others. This was a strong point of my self-efficacy. In college, deciding on a major was my main barrier. This would be considered a contextual factor barrier. During my freshman and sophomore year in community college, another contextual barrier was financials and support from my parents. I was told I needed to earn my degree from community college because it was cheaper. This was also my parents way of trying to point me in the direction of nursing or something in the medical field. After completing junior college, I entered into the USM Child and Family Department. …show more content…
While working on my bachelor’s degree, my interest grew in the field of education and mental health. I can relate my interest to the performance model of social cognitive career theory. In my undergraduate career, I was able to work with an elementary school counselor. The experience was wonderful. I entered this practicum expecting just to help out and come out with an A in the course. I exceeded my own self efficacy and not only came out with an A, but an idea of what I wanted to do in a career. This then became data that regards my past performance which has enhance my performance in my current graduate classes causing better self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and on all future
In 2012 nearly 205,000 people were employed as a physical therapist in the United States. The average salary of a physical therapist in 2012 was $79,860 per year. The number of jobs is estimated to grow 36% from 2012-2022. This job of physical therapy involves many and very important tasks to fulfill the needs of their patients. It requires many different educational requirements and you must have strong people skills.
Application of career theories to my own life allows for analyzing past and future career decisions. Holland’s Theory of Careers states that one’s vocation is an expression of self, personality, and way of life. There is an indisputable and fundamental difference in the quality of life one experiences if they choose a career one truly enjoys, versus choosing a career one detests. A true testament to the validity of Holland’s theory, my job/career choices reflect my interests, as well as the evolution of my personality (internal self). My first job as a fine jewelry specialist and second job as a make-up artist echo my love of the fashion world. As I matured and became less fascinated by presumed “glamour” careers, I became captivated by physical fitness, nutrition, and medicine; I received my national fitness trainer certificate so that I may become a personal trainer. Nevertheless, my career decisions do not fit uniformly into merely one career theory.
Individuals’ perceptions of their life/worth have the power to control the goals that they can carry out and meet. Every day we are learning new things and everyone has his/her own unique ways of learning. My strong desire to help students with their academic, personal, and social needs make me a strong candidate as a school counselor. While completing my undergraduate degree in Early Childhood Program Administration I learned a great deal about myself. I have a passion for learning and want to share and express that love for learning with students. I feel that the Master of School Counseling program provides a direct path to my career goals of helping students to comprehend subject matter while learning to love learning as I do. Not only will
Super and Paul Baltes Theory. Donald E. Super theory focuses on the concerns with both the length and breadth of career developments across the lifespan. Firstly, Donald E. Super played an important part to career development was different in that he passed over the three domains of theory, probe and application. Super wanted his thought or suggestion and discoveries to be useful, attainable to other individuals. Therefore, he did not only gave us theories and information, but also brought out the capabilities and possibilities of helpful tools for research, assessments and counselling. It also looks at the internal and external features that influence our career decisions, not merely the values and attributes of the individual. It focuses these selection in the circumstances of one’s life span and the hurdles that comes along in different stages in life (Savickas, 1997). Career counsellors should have the ability to people handle various period and changeover in existence, not only the condition to another from school to work, from work to cutbacks, from single to married, from couple to parent, from work to retirement and from life to demise. Diplomatic counsellors can make themselves accessible to individuals at any or the majority of the moves that happen amid a lifetime or to suggest clients to others with specific aptitudes. Being a
The theories behind career counseling are various. The prevailing factors in employment are money, personal satisfaction and the ability to achieve. In the case of Naomi we have to help her determine if her dissatisfaction with life is directly correlated to her employment or is she looking at possible changes in employment because of her personal issues. For Naomi, we have to consider that her life has over lapping roles with regard to her personal responsibilities and her work life that can be considered as part of the life stage model (Zunker, 2012). In either case the facts are that she has determined at this juncture in her life she wishes to seek employment counseling and regardless of why she is seeking career guidance it is up to the counselor to provide the services she is requesting.
Social cognitive career theory (SCCT) is a relatively new theory that is aimed at explaining three unified aspects of career development: 1. how basic academic and career interests develop, 2. how educational and career choices are made, and 3. how academic and career success is obtained. The theory incorporates a variety of concepts that appear in earlier career theories and have been found to affect career development (Lent, Brown, & Hackett, 2000).
I cannot recall a more rewarding experience than helping facilitate a child’s education while enabling parent participation alike. These experiences have drawn me to my current position as an Educational Assistant where I am constantly interacting and establishing relationships with students, learning about their goals and aspirations. It is that same desire to empower our future students that has steered me towards a career as a school counselor. By enrolling in the Masters in counseling program, I aspire to develop methods and experience to become an effective, experienced, and adaptable school counselor that promotes self-awareness, allowing students to realize their full potential and impetus them towards a promising future. I want to learn skills that facilitate personal and career development, ensuring that our students grow accomplishing their goals and ambitions.
Career Counseling is a process that will help students understand their interests, values, skills, and abilities to make future educational and life decisions. Career counseling services and techniques can help students become aware of their strengths and positive traits thus enhancing their self-esteem and self-authorship. The Career center offers a wide range of services including personality assessments, workshops, career and job fairs, and networking strategies. Workshops can cover different topics of career including, resume writing, job search, interviewing tips, and more. Career counselors will work with traditional and non-traditional students regarding career-related problems.
The Fantasy Stage is a phase that is characterized by wishful thinking and arbitrary choices. It occurs as early as from birth to eleven years. This is the stage where the choice is made randomly based on the arbitrary nature of the child’s choices. There will be lack of reality orientation because of the fact that children does not consider the reality, their own potentials and abilities. The children’s choices are usually influence by their surrounding environment especially the parents and what the child see around him. There will be no serious vocational consideration (John,
Building early career adaptability can help individuals avoid failures in the adaptation process so that the individual is able to adapt well to the career conditions to be faced. There are four adaptive sources of career adaptability, namely concern, control, curiosity, and confidence (Savickas, 2005). Concern means caring for careers and planning preparation to achieve that career, control means the individual feels he has control and ability to build a career, curiosity means the individual has a curiosity towards his career and seek information to support his career, and confidence means the individual has a belief that himself Able to take action and career-related decisions (Savickas & Porfeli, 2012; Savickas, 2005). Career curiosity is important to develop in the midst of adolescence to support individuals in the process of exploring and retrieving information useful for the
Career change can be incorporated into the tran-theoretical model of change (TTM) to examine the lifespan and approaches to career development. “With the new paradigm of modern workers facing repeated career changes due to voluntary and involuntary turnover, a model outlining the change processes may contribute to more effective counseling strategies” (Barclay, 2010). Although, this model does not reflect the path of career changers, it offers an explanation of why people change careers when they leave
Career and personality assessments could be a great way to explore career choices that maybe appropriate for a student. When helping students with career decisions, it’s important for school counselors to remember they are helpers and students have to make their own decisions. Many times students will come to the school counselor seeking answers, it’s important for the school counselor to allow students to make their own decisions. We can help them by recommending they research different careers or volunteer in fields of interest to see what skills are needed and to gain clarification what is involved in the career their thinking about. Many times students lack understanding in regards to education and experience requirements in different fields, school counselors may need to provide students with resources.
Many theorists and researchers (e.g., Bandura, 1977, 1986; Betz, 2004; Betz & Hackett, 1981; Lent & Brown, 2006; Wood & Bandura, 1989) have posited that self-efficacy is an important source enabling individuals to successfully perform any task. According to Bandura’s (1986) social cognitive theory, self-efficacy refers to “individuals’ judgments of their capacities to organize and execute courses of actions required to attaining designated types of performance” (p. 391). Bandura (1986, 1997) proposes that when individuals believe in their abilities to carry out actions to reach a specific goal and determine whether an action will be pursued, they will be more likely to exert an effort to carry out that action, persist in the face of obstacles, and perform a specific task at an optimum level. Self-efficacy (Bandura, 1977, 1986, 1989) has been widely recognized as an emerging construct and given rise to considerable movement in theories and research in the career development literature over the past three decades (e.g., Hackett & Lent, 1992; Lent, 2005; Lent & Brown, 2006; Lent & Hackett, 1987).
Career counseling over the lifespan has more than an occupational focus, it deals with the person’s entire being with a vision that includes one’s lifespan. Career counseling takes into consideration character development, character skills, life roles, individual life and work history, goals, and obstacles. A career counselor not only assists a client with a career plan, but also with a life plan. This paper focuses on two categories of career counseling. The first focus is the history of career counseling as a field of study with the emphasis on when and why career counseling began (1800s as a study of how the shape of one’s head relates to vocational choice), who and what influenced it (Sizer, Parsons, and Davis), and how it has changed (from an individual/community vocational view to an individual/world lifespan view). The second focus is on the application of career counseling by researching two leaders, John Holland’s and Donald Super’s, contributions to career counseling, their theories and assessments and on the biblical aspects of career counseling and how each theory relates to the Bible.
After reading these modules and understanding the stages of career development, I was able to identify multiple activities relevant to the four stages in order to assist students transition from school life to their post-school life. These four stages of career development, facilitate the student’s not only to distinguish what they enjoy doing, but satisfy their future as well. As a school counselor, I will design workshops to aid students explore their interest for their future life as a member of our society. According to Jennifer Curry author of the book “Career counseling in P-12 schools” stated that “students do better when they have an understanding of what is expected from them”. “The four stages of the career development are: career awareness, career exploration, preparation for the future career, and career placement” (Iris.peabody.vanderbilt.edu).