Summary of Parent Involved Career Exploration (or PICE) Parents often play a major role in their child’s process of career exploration. Norman E. Amundson and Kurt Penner developed the PICE strategy to help counselors guide students (usually age 14 to 18) in preliminary career exploration with the aid of parents. When used correctly, this strategy can help build a sense of support and cooperation between students and parents. This provides the students with a great resource as they continue exploring their career options. This strategy includes 5 stages and is intended for use in a single counseling session. 1. Introduction Stage Describe the counseling exploration activity to the students and parents. Point out that this session is
intended to be a starting place for career exploration rather than the final say. The focus is to help the students analyze their experiences and preferences. Parents are included primarily as observers, but they will also have the chance to provide their thoughts and insight. 2. Pattern Identification Exercise The students will consider a leisure or extracurricular activity (band, youth group, volunteer position, hobby, etc.). They will relate an experience that went well and an experience that went poorly. The counselor will help the students to explore what made the event a positive or negative experience as well as what aspects of their personalities felt most engaged during the activity. 3. School Preferences and Performance The counselor will guide students to describe what they like and dislike about school by focusing on their academic strengths and passions. Whenever appropriate, these passions and strengths (or frustrations) should be connected to the activities mentioned by the students in the previous section. Parents are also given time to speak to their child’s strengths in this stage. (could explore values expectations) 4. Perspectives on Education and Labor Market Opportunities Students will be encouraged to think about career paths that might allow them to engage in meaningful and personally fulfilling work. The counselor can provide information on current market trends, the need for flexibility, information interviewing, feelings of anxiety about the job hunt, and information on local schools admission standards. 5. Setting the Next Step (Action Planning) This stage is fairly straightforward. Based on the strengths, passions, and interests expressed by the students, the counselor will provide the families with resources that help them further explore those avenues. This information would include data about local schools, training programs, job market information, professional interview opportunities, and online resources. They will make a plan for the families to explore this information together.
Career Cruising is an informational website and available at participating schools, public libraries, and employment agencies across North America. This program is intended to direct individuals towards appropriate career choices based on specific criteria, such as education, training and previous experience. Individuals can find this information database self-directed, user friendly and rewarding while presenting a variety of options to meet their personal needs. Not only does it offer assistance for the perspective individual in career development, but also on SAT/ACT preparation, online study guides, interview strategies and seminars by promoting growth and effective career opportunities.
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Our parents constantly remind us that becoming a doctor, a lawyer, or any job that would benefit you is always the right career path to take. In fact, according to researchers from Association of American Medical Colleges, revealed that only 21,030 of the 53,042 students who applied to get into medical school are accepted, that is roughly 40% of the students and the other 60% get rejected. But yet, our parents does not understand that these professions they wished upon us have the littlest to no interest towards many young individuals. This is evident in The Boat by Alistair MacLeod, which tells us that many adolescents have been shut down without a proper statement about our future, this is because our future was either influenced by our parents
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.
I will discuss the National Career Development Guidelines and will address each section of the guidelines in terms of its importance in career counseling. As well, I will critique an activity that is used in elementary school setting against the guidelines to compare if the activity meets the standards.
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During group counseling, students will have both short and long term goals. Short terms goal includes 6 sessions that will focus on the intermediate goals of therapy, learning new ways to problem solve, coping skills, and managing tough situations. Long term goals will involve a ‘Behavior Management Plan” that will include 3-4 goals student will work toward within the school year. At the end of the year, an evaluation of student progress will be assesse...
I have known from an early age that I’ve wanted to become a doctor. Helping people has always been a passion of mine. When I was younger, I wanted to be a veterinarian. However, after working with young children I have found that I love working with them, and have a connection with children. Currently, I am interested in becoming either a neonatologist or a general pediatrician so I can continue to work with young children.
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.
Discussion of a young person’s goals for their future begins as soon as they enter our program for both in-school and out-of-school youth. During the initial screening for Options, they complete an Individual Vocational Packet (IVP) previously
This video also went along with our textbook and the power points shown in class. These videos showed appropriate examples of all the different stages of group counseling. It also showed how
Throughout this essay I will be explaining and exploring the benefits of counselling to young people, and how individuals can benefit from attending counselling sessions with myself.
Seeking the services of a career counselor can provide many benefits. One can gain a deeper understanding of him/herself, gain information on education and careers, gain sills in decision-making, gain support in conducting a job search or applying to higher education, and gain support coping with career transitions (NCDA, “Why Seek Career Counseling, 2007). How a career counselor provides services depends on his or her theoretical approach to career counseling.
The nature of a group counseling setting involves the development of respect, emphasizes teamwork, and supports proper human interaction between group members. This type of approach is invaluable for students’ further development. As the school counselor, one must be sensitive and responsive to all types of group dynamics regardless of the groups goals. School counselors must also know when to intervene in guiding discussions, as well as being capable of reconstructing conclusions reached to effectively achieve success within the group. Above all, the counselor must present themselves in a genuine, empathic way with all members of the group in order to continue a collaborative, trusting relationship. As with any comprehensive guidance program, school counselors who are conducting small group sessions must first develop the structure, time of each session, total number of sessions, and goals of the group. Students’ must also be screened for their age appropriate development, needs, and commitment to the group in order for the group to be successful. An academic group may be intended for students, at any age level, whose obstructions to school success and achievement can be reinforced through the application of improving study and organizational skills, maintaining attendance, making steps involved in goal-setting and
The counseling session began with the introductions where I introduced myself as the counselor and later introduced my client. This stage is important in any counseling session since it is the time of exploration and focusing according to Gerard Egan as quoted by Wright (1998) in his essay on couselling skills. It is in this session that I was able to establish rapport and trust with my client in order to come up with a working and fruitful relationship with him. During this stage I made use of skills like questioning, where I would pose a question directly to my client, sometimes I would choose to just listen to what the client wanted to speak out while in some instances I would be forced to paraphrase the question if I felt the client did not understand the question I had asked previously. There were also other times when I would reflect through silence. During such a period, I got time to study the client and the information he had given. This being a difficult area, since some clients may not be able to volunteer information to you as the counselor, I decided to assure the client of confidentiality of any information he was willing to share with me with a few exceptions which I also told him about. Being open to him about the only times the information may not be confidential was part of my building rapport and establishing trust with him. I therefore, decided to ask the client what information he wanted to share with me and lucky enough he was ready to speak to me about different issues that he was going through.