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Culture and Career Counseling, 2004.
The importance of incorporating all cultures when considering approaches for career counseling.
3,943 words (approx. 15.8 pages), 18 sources, MLA, $ 107.95
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Culture is a critical variable in career counseling and should enter into every part of the career counseling process. This paper explains that, in order to effectively utilize a valid frame of reference in which to place cultural variables, counselors need to be familiar with theories of acculturation, world-views, aspirations and expectations, societal barriers and intra-group socialization, and racial and ethnic identity development.The writer explains that it is clear that career counselors working with multi-cultural students must be trained in such a way as to ensure that they are completely sensitive to and well-versed in matching individual students to the appropriate work environment. It discusses how career counseling is a process occurring between two or more individuals and designed to help students reach a career decision. It concludes that, in order to be effective as a career counselor with racial and ethnic minority students, counselors must become skilled in cross-cultural counseling.
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"Good career counseling always takes place within a cultural context, which is true regardless of ethnicity. Current theoretical models may not be adequate to explain the career behavior of racial and ethnic minorities. Vocational assessment has to be culturally sensitive, and only culturally appropriate tools should be used in vocational assessment. The goal of career counseling is to help clients make career choices that are culturally appropriate, rather than to try to have all clients make the same choices. Today, with the changes in the balance of ethnic representations in the United States, and a greater recognition of the changing needs of racial and ethnic minority members, it is generally agreed that counselors must be competent to work with a diverse population and effectively deliver vocational counseling services to racial and ethnic minorities."
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Career Counseling, 2005.
This paper discusses career counseling and the impact of the gender-role socialization process.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages), 3 sources, $ 133.95
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The paper explores aspects of career counseling and answers several questions on major issues in this field. This includes: How does fear of femininity impact men's career development? Compare characteristics of African American and Asian men and identify related career counseling implications. How does the socio-economic status of parents impact the expectations parents have for their children?
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"Researchers examining issues concerning career development have noted the fact that many men exhibit a fear of femininity which affects their career path. This idea has been inculcated in men by means of the normal gender-role socialization process and some have suggested that this has created a masculine/feminine polarity. Zunker (1994) lists characteristics associated with each gender, based on the socialization process. Masculinity is therefore associated with the following: power and the exercise of power, strength and toughness, logical and analytical thought and ambition and achievement. These are all characteristics that are associated with success, with forging ahead, with taking charge, with achieving something in life."
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Career-Counseling Programs and Pregnant Teenagers, 2002.
Offers arguments in support of the development of career-counseling programs for pregnant teenagers.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 53.95
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While thousands of teens have become pregnant every year for centuries, it has only been in the last three decades that teen-pregnancy has been addressed in any kind of open manner. Now, we as a community have the opportunity to help our pregnant teenage girls achieve a full and rewarding life. The problem is that we have few structures developed within our school systems for career and life counseling specifically designed to help this population. The information that follows is a justification for the development of a comprehensive career-counseling program that will directly improve the current and future lives of pregnant teenage girls.
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Career Counseling, 2006.
A review of career counseling for disabled persons.
3,488 words (approx. 14.0 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 98.95
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The paper provides a literature review of career counseling of physically and mentally disabled individuals. The paper also discusses the types of programs that have been implemented and the outcomes of some of the programs. The review shows how career counseling and development for the physically disabled is vitally important in ensuring that these individuals are able to acquire and keep jobs. The paper concludes that programs in the United States have been relatively successful. However, researchers have found lower occurrences of employment amongst women and African Americans that are disabled and have participated in such programs.
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Introduction
Literature Review
Discussion and Conclusion
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"Wadsworth et al (2004) explains that career development is essential to the promotion of a productive life for those with physical and mental disabilities. The authors also point out that most of the current research on the topic of career development for the disabled is focused on occupational choice instead of career development (Rumrill & Roessler, 1999; Wadsworth et al 2004). The authors explain that occupational choice concerns itself with a person's vocational decision at any point in time (Wadsworth et al 2004). On the other hand, career development is concerned with the sustained developmental process that integrates both personal and environmental information (Wadsworth et al 2004). In addition the authors assert that career development is a unique process that forces individuals to engage in the unending analysis, and combination of information about the workforce and self (Wadsworth et al 2004)."
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Career Counseling, 2007.
This paper looks at the value of attachment theory within career counseling.
1,436 words (approx. 5.7 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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In this article, the writer notes that to be an effective career counselor, a counselor must address the psychological needs and desires of a prospective client, not simply prescribe a career based needupon the individual's education as it fits into the current job market. However, the writer also points out that theories of matching personalities to career paths, or using an individual's hobby to suggest what he or she really ought to be doing, is only helpful in answering the question of what one would like to do. While answering this question is undeniably an important part of a career counselor's task, an equally frequent issue that occurs in counseling is when a person does not feel able to do a particular job. The writer discusses treating issues related to a lack of self-efficacy. The writer concludes that the counselor must help the client unburden him or herself of specific concepts of a lack of self-efficacy related to career skills and goals--but there also must be a more general component of raising the client's self-esteem and efficacy that is essential to fully realize the individual's maximum potential in the workforce.
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"Answering this question by empowering the client's self esteem requires a certain basic knowledge of the concept of self-efficacy, one of the core concepts developed from the larger psychological theory of attachment. Attachment theory was the brainchild of the British psychoanalyst John Bowlby who wished to explain the intense distress experienced by infants separated from their parents, even for a short time. Bowlby stated that this response was a necessary evolutionary mechanism to ensure that children were cared for by their parents, and that the separation between child and parent was taken seriously. Bowlby theorized that children who grew up in a household with accessible and attentive caregivers grew up feeling secure and became greater risk-takers and more sociable because their basic needs for secure attachment and attention were satisfied. A child without such an available caregiver who was forced to cry without being comforted developed a sense of learned helplessness, a low sense of self-efficacy or ability to affect the environment, and eventually may sank into despair and finally, depression as an adult. A person whose attachment needs was unsatisfied as a child may be highly avoidant of new tasks that may provoke anxiety, as well as fearful of others."
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Career Counseling and Job Satisfaction, 2002.
This paper is a literature review on the topics of career counseling and job satisfaction.
1,145 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 9 sources, APA, $ 39.95
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This paper explains that job satisfaction and job counseling are both management and an employee issues. The paper quotes that the usual way of measuring job satisfaction through Total Quality Measurement (TQM) questionnaires is not effective because two people who do the same work for the same salary rarely record the same level of satisfaction as the motivation factor is missing from the questionnaire. The author concludes that job satisfaction is a component that can be tested through surveys and that can be promoted by means of in-house programs, but it is best promoted by good company policies that nurture an atmosphere that supports the needs and ambitions of workers and so motivates them to work their best.
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"The author further notes that the advent of the computer has contributed to the trend by placing a premium on innovation and creativity. To achieve this, a company must create an environment in which people do not feel alienated so that they only do what is required of them. The company needs commitment and loyalty, which are nurtured by affiliation, which is a product of the progressive management approaches characterized as giving attention to spirituality. This means a new emphasis on values and culture, though this as well may raise people's expectations too high. To decide which policies, programs, and cultures are merely "nice to have?, which actually have a positive effect on business, more, and more companies are routinely conducting attitude, productivity, and employee and customer satisfaction surveys."
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Career Counseling: Two Theories, 2002.
Explores the two theories of career guidance scholars, John Holland and Donald and Ann Roe to determine the similarities and differences between them.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 6 sources, $ 53.95
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Career counseling, from the outside, appears to be little more than an established network of people who maintain binders of job postings and help people with tips about interviews. At the high school level, they are seen as the people who carry binders of college materials and help students fill out applications and write essays. These misconceptions do a significant injustice to the field of career guidance, for they miss the entire point of what it is that the career counselor does. Helping a person discover what it is that they want to define their life with and helping them achieve that goal requires the analytical skills of a psychologist, the patience of a priest and the business eye of a CEO. At the core of career guidance are schools of philosophy and thought which center upon the work of scholars the like of John Holland and Donald and Ann Roe. It is the purpose of this paper to explore these two theories of career guidance and to find their common and uncommon ground.
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Career Counseling, 2004.
This paper uses peer-reviewed journal articles to explore the thoughts of leading career counselors on the history, present state, and future of this field in schools.
2,550 words (approx. 10.2 pages), 15 sources, APA, $ 77.95
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This paper explains that, just as students benefit from rigorous academic study, they also gain from more knowledge about career options and the skills and training required for different jobs. The author points out that the initiative, ?The School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994? (STWOA), provides state funding to create local partnerships with the goal of meeting students' transition-to-career needs. The paper relates that the new economy necessitates a career development method whereby students must first identify broad industry sector goals and prepare themselves for multiple roles within these sectors.
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"In recent years, educator E.L. Herr has emphasized that the schools in the United States have developed ?inconsistent educational and workforce development policies.? He argues that the failure of career development services to become an integral piece of each school's educational mission results in large part from federal policies and initiatives that, in reality, are not interrelated to current national educational reform movements. He feels that it is not surprising that, given this scenario, many school counselors and administrators have demonstrated a lack of familiarity with and commitment to national workforce preparation policies."
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Career Counseling, 2000.
A definition, job vs. career, goals, effects on counselees and hypothetical examples and evaluation.
2,250 words (approx. 9.0 pages), 19 sources, $ 79.95
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"Career Counseling
Introduction
The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of career counseling. To this end, the paper begins by defining career counseling and distinguishing a "job" from a "career." This is followed by a delineation and discussion of the goals of career counseling and the various changes (effects) it produces in the lives of individuals. An example of career counseling and its effects in the life of an individual is provided. The overview ends with a summary and evaluation."
Career Counseling: Definition and Difference Between
A Job And A Career
According to Peterson and Nisenholz (1994), career counseling may be defined as an aspect of general counseling that
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Psychology Career Counseling, 2005.
This paper offers summaries of three articles on teacher development.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 3 sources, $ 26.95
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The paper provides summaries of three articles about development of teachers, noting different aspects of the issue, different approaches taken, research conducted and surveys of teachers for their views. The paper presents the three articles; "Professional development for the teacher, of the teacher and by the teacher," "Teacher-to-teacher professional development through state-sponsored networks" and "The cooperating teacher role and career development."
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"The authors discuss current ways of achieving teacher development, beginning with a meeting at the beginning of each school year, though the writers also find that most professional development ignores the teachers and operates at a different level. Restructuring and reform have been the watchwords since 1983, but the authors find that the program has not worked. They recommend instead an approach called SITTI - School Innovation Through Teacher Interaction - that was developed by Pierce and Hunsaker in 1995. This is a cyclical model beginning with a common vision, identifying the needs of the faculty, establishing "experts" among the faculty who will act on the needs, and providing a support through peer coaching."
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The History and Evolution of Counseling Psychology, 2004.
This article studies the practice of counseling psychology.
6,750 words (approx. 27.0 pages), 15 sources, MLA, $ 239.95
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The writer of this paper examines the history and evolution of counseling psychology from various perspectives. The writer discusses the unique characteristics that distinguish counseling psychology from clinical psychology. In this paper, the writer also offers a literature review.
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"The purpose of the paper is to provide a concise exploration of the inception and development of counseling psychology from various perspectives. Most significantly, this discussion will highlight the unique characteristics of counseling psychology which distinguish it from clinical psychology, another specialty in the field of psychology. Because the two specialties share the same theoretical knowledge and practices, counseling psychology has often been subsumed under the field of clinical psychology. By catering to a population that ... "
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"The Psychology of Counseling", 2002.
Analyzes the book "The Psychology of Counseling" (Clyde Narramore).
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This paper will discuss a summary of the book "The Psychology of Counseling" by Clyde Narramore. By examining this book, we can see how he uses an integration theory as a foundation for the book, while learning how the integration of religious themes can be used in the Freudian schools of psychological counseling.
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Counseling Psychology Research, 2005.
This paper discusses developing a research project in counseling psychology.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper explores a federal research grant to study questions in the field of counseling psychology. The author first sets the stage with an already conducted study, using its findings as a base from which to work. The paper relates that the study, which the author would conduct, combines qualitative and quantitative methods to study the incidence and effect of empathic counseling methods, which would contribute to the field significantly by providing a more reasonable determination of the nature of counseling methods and draw some conclusions about their effectiveness.
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"Having just received a federal research grant in the field of psychology - more specifically, counseling psychology - it now falls to me to demonstrate my ability to formulate an appropriate research project that will make a significant contribution to the field. That said, it is my intention to expound upon a recent study that was done (Carlozzi et al, 2002) that examined the relationship between theory, practice, and empathy for counselors and psychologists. Understanding the role that empathy plays for psychologists is important on both a theoretical and practical level. This paper will first present the results of the study mentioned above as a basis for my subsequent explanation of my own research intent. My work will help quantify both the incidence and importance of counselor empathy and has the potential to suggest some new theoretical approaches to the issue."
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Christian Counselling: Integrating Psychology and Theology, 2006.
An examination of the role and responsibilities of the Christian counselor to his patient and the world at large.
2,720 words (approx. 10.9 pages), 6 sources, APA, $ 81.95
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This paper analyzes the connection between theology and psychology in Christian counseling. The benefits of combining these two disparate studies and practices is then discussed. Following this examination, the paper presents ways in which Christian counselors may use these findings in order to better their practices and better heal their patients.
The author claims to rely on current research in addition to classic texts of psychoanalysis such as Freud's. The goal of Christian counselling is seen as a positive integration of psychological texts and the Bible.
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"Research indicates that after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Americans have grasped for the healing associated with Christian counseling. Like Herrod, these Americans are flocking to counseling that incorporates a spiritual or religious element, most often of the Christian variety. Over the last decade, in fact, faith-based therapies--from pastoral counseling to ecumenical Christian counseling to fundamentalist Bible--based treatment have absolutely rocketed in popularity, according to Paul's research. (Paul. 2005)
As evidence, the American Association of Christian Counselors has grown from 15,000 members in 1999 to 50,000 today. Specialized services are also thriving: It is becoming increasingly easy to find Christian-based eating disorder treatment centers or Christian life coaches. (Paul, 2005)"
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Psychology and Theology in Christian Counseling, 2005.
A study about the value of combining psychology and theology in Christian counseling.
2,390 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 8 sources, APA, $ 73.95
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This paper begins by attempting to determine the body of knowledge to date concerning the value, if any, of blending psychology and theological precepts into a holistic Christian counseling approach. Next, the paper attempts to identify any confounding factors to such a holistic approach. Finally, the paper develops a best practices model for providing Christian counseling using psychotherapeutic techniques.
Introduction
Statement of the Problem
Purpose of the Study
Importance of the Study
Rational of the Study
Overview of the Study
Review of Related Literature
Methodology
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"The nature of the human condition means that there are spiritual, physiological, psychological, and sociocultural components involved. In order to live a complete life, then, requires a healthy spiritual component as well as mental and physical well-being. The challenges facing counselors today, then, is to develop a framework that approaches the individual from this holistic perspective. According to Becvar (1997), the fields of psychology and theology tend to overlap, because "tending to the soul in human beings goes far beyond science" (p. 270). Healthcare providers have tended to exclude spirituality from their delivery models in recent years, but the apparent value of prayer and Christian counseling in these settings has caused many clinicians to reassess what people really need when they are sick and scared."
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