Learning Theory of Career Counseling

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Learning Theory of Career Counseling

• LTCC

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Social learning theory of career decision making
(SLTCDM) Influencers

• Genetic endowment and special abilities
• Interaction of genetic factors and exposure to
  selected environment events
• Environmental conditions and events
• Cultural, social, political, and economic forces
  outside ones control
• Instrumental and associative learning experiences
• Antecedents, behaviors, and consequences
• Associative learning experiences? Example?
• Task approach skills
• Influence beliefs about self and the world

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Expected career concerns

• Absence of goal or career indecision
  (open-mindedness)
• Unrealism
• Multipotentiality

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Outcomes

• Self-observation generalizations
• Overt/covert, Actual/vicarious
• Learning experiences lead us to draw conclusions
  about ourselves.
• Worldview generalizations
• Accuracy depends on the learning experience
• Task approach skills (pg. 75, 3?)
• Influencer and Outcome
• Actions

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Counselors role

• Accurate self-observation generalizations
• Accurate worldview generalizations
• Task Approach skills
• Career-related actions

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Trends

• Expand capabilities and interests
• Prepare for changing work tasks
• Empower clients through on-going assistance
• Assist with problems other than career selection

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Happenstance

• Chance events that happen in daily living
• Generate, recognize, and incorporate chance
  events into the process of career development.
• How have unplanned events influenced your career
  in the past?
• How do you feel about encountering unplanned
  events in the future?
• Internal locus of control, self-efficacy

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Congruence?

• Restricting
• Intraoccupational variability among people
• Less useful because heterogeneity in work
  environments is more highly valued

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Research

• Not so much.yet