Career Counseling for Latinoa College students: Treatment Implications

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Career Counseling for Latino/a College students
Treatment Implications
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Background

• Largest minority population
• 45 countries
• Ambivalent relationship U.S.
• Discrimination

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General cultural issues

• Identity development is grounded in
• Familismo - interdependence
• Respeto
• Personalismo
• Masculinity/machismo
• Fatalism/destiny/locus of control

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When in counseling research shows

• Less likely to seek counseling services
• Do not discuss problems with stranger
• Saving face, prestige, dignity
• Counseling only for psychopathology
• Bring in physical symptoms

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• And
• Selfish v selfless thinking
• Systemic/family/community orientation
• Perceive career barriers
• Lack career information
• Culturally sensitive assessment instruments

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Risco Duffy findings

• Most important work values
• Work enjoyment
• Interest in the field
• Job security
• Least important work values
• Having free time
• Working without close supervision
• Family expectations

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• Latinos
• High anticipated earnings
• Latinas
• Interest in the field
• Making a difference
• More indecisive
• Lower career importance

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In career counseling

• Address
• Work values
• Family expectations
• Anticipated earnings
• Making a difference
• How these play a role in career development
• For Latinas
• Indecisiveness
• Career salience

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Klingaman Duffy findings

• Ethnic identity plays a role in Latino/as career
  decidedness
• Traditional career variables such as
• Self-clarity
• Knowledge about careers
• Indecisiveness
• Career salience
• Play a relatively smaller role in career
  decidedness

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In Career counseling

• Discuss ethnic Id and the role it plays in career
  counseling
• How do this in counseling?

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Counseling techniques

• Counselor be aware of
• own culture, values, attitudes
• discrimination issues
• Introduce self at Student Orientation and other
  relevant programs
• Have contact with Housing, Financial Aid,
  International Students Office

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• Ethnic Id (KD) Focus on cultural strengths
• Contact with
• campus organizations that include Latino/as
• Mentoring programs on campus to connect
• with community resources, i.e. National Hispanic
  scholarship Fund, Aspira (academic and career
  counseling)
• Local Latin communities and festivals

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findings

• family expectations (RD)
• Explore family relationships, expectations.
  Involve parents?
• Homogeneous groups
• Latinas indecisive, low career salience (RD)
• Provide info on traditional and non-traditional
  careers
• Develop academic and career self-efficacy
• Math and science classes!