Career Counseling IS Holistic Counseling

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Career Counseling IS Holistic Counseling

• Career counselors are increasingly concerned
  with total life integration and helping the
  client consider the potential impact of their
  choices on other life rolesDuane Brown

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Career counseling

• A process designed to assist individual with
  career development problems related to
• Choosing
• Entering
• Adjusting
• Advancing
• in an occupation.

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Lifelong psychological process

• Interacts dynamically with other life roles
• Career problems include
• Career indecision and undecidedness
• Work performance
• Stress and adjustment
• Incongruence person/environment
• Unsatisfactory integration of other life roles

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Counselor must identify

• Presenting problem and underlying issues
• Clients locus of control as an indicator of
  commitment to the process
• Present with statements like I have so many
  interests I cant decide. or Im not
  particularly interested in anything.
• Is it lack of information or indecisiveness?

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Intake interview

• Structuring Initial contract setting
• What brings you in today?
• What do you hope will occur as a result of career
  counseling?
• Assess Clients Motivation
• Is the client invested in doing the work needed
  to reach his/her goal?

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Intake cont

• Establishing Informal Roles
• Counselor provides informal leads and open-ended
  questions.
• Counselor can assume experts role or establish a
  collaborative role.
• Acknowledge clients active role in the process.

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Cont

• Establishing the Limits of Confidentiality
• Identify Assessment Considerations
• Housekeeping Considerations
• Establish fees and payment, approximate number of
  sessions, set next appointment .
• Termination of First session
• Review agreements
• Complete file notes