Career Counseling and Development

Catalog description

The cornerstone of career counseling recognizes that it touches all aspects of human life, for it involves political, economic, educational, philosophical, and social progress and change, along with understanding the whole person as a member of complex social systems. The specialized content of career counseling includes initial career choice, the connection between career and personal problems, adaptations to changes in the workplace, multiple career dilemmas, and the maintenance of a balanced lifestyle. The interactions of career, life, and gender roles in marriages, couples, and families are an important focus of this course. Students would develop a comprehensive approach for skillfully performing career counseling that also incorporates personal concerns by examining and applying career assessment theory, performing major theories of career counseling and decision-making, integrating career assessment information and major types of resource information, and employing research on trends in the world of work.