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Career Counseling Flashcards

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  1. According to the NCDA Code of Ethics, when a career counselor uses computer-based career guidance systems (CBCGS) with clients, the counselor MUST ensure:

    Answer: Clients are capable of using the system and understand its purpose and limitations

    NCDA ethics require counselors to ensure clients understand how to use CBCGS, can interpret their results accurately, and know the limitations of computer-generated guidance.

  2. A career counselor is working with a client who identifies as transgender and is concerned about workplace discrimination. The MOST ethically and clinically appropriate response is to:

    Answer: Provide affirmative counseling that integrates the client's identity with career planning and discusses legal protections

    Affirming counselors integrate all aspects of identity, provide accurate information about legal protections such as Title VII, and support the client holistically within career planning.

  3. Which of the following BEST describes the concept of 'career adaptability' as used in Career Construction Theory?

    Answer: Psychosocial resources including concern, control, curiosity, and confidence used to manage career transitions

    Savickas defines career adaptability through four resources—concern, control, curiosity, and confidence—that help individuals manage vocational development tasks and transitions.

  4. A client's Strong Interest Inventory results show high scores in Investigative and Artistic themes but low Conventional scores. According to Holland's theory, this client would LEAST likely be satisfied in which occupation?

    Answer: Accountant

    Accounting is a strongly Conventional occupation requiring systematic, detail-oriented work, which conflicts with this client's Investigative-Artistic profile.

  5. The 'narrative career counseling' approach pioneered by Savickas encourages clients to construct their career stories using early memories and role models PRIMARILY because:

    Answer: Stories reveal the recurring themes and life preoccupations that give direction to vocational behavior

    In Career Construction Theory, clients' micro-narratives reveal preoccupations, plot lines, and themes that can be transformed into a macronarrative guiding future career direction.

  6. When interpreting aptitude test scores for career counseling purposes, a counselor should explain to the client that aptitude tests PRIMARILY measure:

    Answer: The potential to learn or develop specific skills with training

    Aptitude tests assess a person's capacity to learn or perform certain tasks when given appropriate training or education, not fixed or fully developed skills.

  7. A career counselor working in a college setting notices that a student's expressed interest in medicine conflicts with their low academic achievement in science courses. Using a trait-and-factor approach, the BEST intervention is to:

    Answer: Explore both the student's interests and abilities to identify realistic occupational alternatives

    Trait-and-factor approaches match individual traits—including both interests and abilities—to occupational requirements, requiring honest exploration of all relevant characteristics.