Group Career Counseling Flashcards

Which group format is most suitable for helping middle school students explore careers through the Holland RIASEC model?

Answer: Classroom guidance or psychoeducational group

Structured classroom or psychoeducational groups suit career awareness for younger students.

A group member discloses suicidal thoughts after a layoff during a session. The leader's first priority is to:

Answer: Assess risk and ensure the member's safety

Safety and risk assessment take priority over the group agenda.

Co-leading a career group offers which primary benefit?

Answer: Leaders can model healthy interaction and share observation duties

Co-leaders can model collaboration and track more group dynamics.

In Corey's model, the working stage of a career group is characterized by:

Answer: Members taking risks and working toward career goals

In the working stage, cohesion supports risk-taking and productive goal work.

A member says, 'I'll never find work at my age.' A leader using a cognitive approach in the group would most likely:

Answer: Invite the group to examine evidence for and against that belief

Cognitive approaches challenge negative career beliefs by examining the evidence.

Which method is best for evaluating outcomes of a career counseling group?

Answer: Pre- and post-measures such as career decision self-efficacy scales

Pre/post measures such as the CDSE Scale document change attributable to the group.

A leader shares, 'I also felt anxious when I changed careers,' to encourage openness. This is:

Answer: Leader self-disclosure, used briefly and for members' benefit

Brief, purposeful self-disclosure can model openness when it serves members.