Counseling Career Development and Counseling 2 — Questions and Answers
Question 1: The Strong Interest Inventory (SII) is based primarily on which theory?
- Super's Life-Span theory
- Holland's RIASEC typology (Correct answer)
- Krumboltz's Social Learning Theory
- Roe's personality theory
Correct answer: Holland's RIASEC typology
The Strong Interest Inventory organizes results using Holland's six RIASEC themes to match client interests with occupational environments.
Question 2: Dawis and Lofquist's Theory of Work Adjustment (TWA) focuses on:
- Developmental career stages
- The correspondence between individual needs and work environment reinforcers (Correct answer)
- Self-efficacy in occupational tasks
- Narrative life themes in career stories
Correct answer: The correspondence between individual needs and work environment reinforcers
TWA proposes that job satisfaction and tenure depend on the correspondence between a worker's needs and the reinforcers provided by the work environment.
Question 3: Savickas's Career Construction Theory extends Super's work by focusing on:
- Genetic influences on career choice
- The narrative meaning clients construct about their career experiences (Correct answer)
- Six personality-environment types
- Social barriers and self-efficacy
Correct answer: The narrative meaning clients construct about their career experiences
Mark Savickas's Career Construction Theory emphasizes the personal narratives and life themes clients use to construct meaning from their career experiences.
Question 4: Which assessment measures a client's vocational identity stability and sense of purpose?
- MBTI
- My Vocational Situation (MVS) (Correct answer)
- NEO-PI-R
- Beck Depression Inventory
Correct answer: My Vocational Situation (MVS)
The My Vocational Situation (MVS) instrument, developed by Holland, measures vocational identity, occupational information needs, and perceived barriers to career choice.
Question 5: The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is relevant to career counseling primarily because it:
- Requires all employers to provide vocational counseling
- Prohibits employment discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities (Correct answer)
- Mandates career assessments for all job applicants
- Establishes federal salary minimums
Correct answer: Prohibits employment discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities
The ADA prohibits employment discrimination against qualified individuals with disabilities and requires employers to provide reasonable accommodations, directly affecting career counseling practice.
Question 6: Roe's personality theory of career choice suggests that occupational preferences are influenced by:
- Genetic predisposition and IQ
- Early parent-child relationships and resulting needs (Correct answer)
- Cognitive self-efficacy beliefs
- Random chance and happenstance
Correct answer: Early parent-child relationships and resulting needs
Anne Roe's theory proposes that early childhood experiences, particularly parenting style and the resulting psychological needs, influence whether individuals gravitate toward person-oriented or non-person-oriented occupations.
Counseling Career Development and Counseling 2
The Strong Interest Inventory (SII) is based primarily on which theory?