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Applying Career Development Theory to Counseling, 6e Richard Sharf

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• Most writers believe that personal and career counseling

• can be done by the same person if the counselor recognizes that the two types of

counseling are significantly different.

• have little in common, as personal issues do not affect career issues.

*c. overlap considerably as both career and personal issues affect each other.

• should be done by different individuals with different qualifications.

• Career counseling may address

• the reliability coefficients of assessment instruments.
• the development of the Occupational Outlook Handbook.
• the contributions of the National Career Development Association.

*d. personal issues.

• If an employer advertises in the newspaper for a cashier to work in her pharmacy, she is

concerned with which of these concepts

• career.
• career choice.
• employee satisfaction.

*d. occupation.

• Alvin is concerned that he is no longer as interested in being an electrical engineer as he once

was. Alvin is raising questions about his

*a. career.

• validity.
• theory.
• norms.

• When newspapers list a series of want adds for accountants, the heading "accountant" refers

to

• career.
• employee satisfaction.

*c. occupation.

• salary.

• In general, theories should

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• be clear about counseling goals.

*c. be precise about predictions.

• be precise about which assessment instruments to use.

• Which of the following is NOT important in evaluating a theory?

• being consistent
• being explicit about rules
• making precise predictions

*d. giving accurate occupational information

• Which of the following is NOT important in evaluating a theory?

• being consistent
• being explicit about rules

*c. chunking

• making precise predictions.

• Which of the following theories would be best to use?

• A broad and comprehensive theory that is not clear enough to be tested.

*b. A theory with precise but limited predictions.

• A theory with unclear rules but interesting and creative ideas.
• A theory with undefined terms but much popular following.

• Which of the following is LEAST important in selecting a career development theory to

apply to counseling?

• client population that the counselor serves
• ease of use in applying the theory in the counseling setting
• the counselor's theory of counseling

*d. the inventories and tests that the counselor studied in preparation for career counseling

• The Person-Environment Fit model studies

*a. the interaction between individuals and their environment

• individual mental fitness.
• well normed data.
• psychological maturity.

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*a. similar to general counseling skills.

• the concepts described by career development tests and inventories.
• the concepts that are described by career development theory.
• the same as normal conversational skills.

• Counseling helping skills are

• not used in career counseling.
• the same as career development theory.

*c. applicable to career counseling.

• skills used in normal conversation.

• A test that is both dependable and consistent is

• appropriately normed.

*b. reliable.

• valid.
• valuable.

• A reliable test

• is a valid test.
• is a widely used test.
• is one which is consistent with career development theory.

*d. yields similar results when given on more than one occasion.

• An interest inventory that accurately measures a wide variety of individual interests and

predicts later occupational entry is said to

• be less useful than a test of abilities.
• be reliable .

*c. be valid.

• verify a career development theory.

• In which of these ways can assessment instruments play a major role in career development

theory?

• ensure the reliability of a test
• ensure that appropriate norms are used
• to develop a counselor's counseling skills

*d. to develop and verify constructs

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