ABS Dis 2

  Prepare: Before beginning this discussion, read Chapter 8: Career Counseling in your text, interact with the Educational Psychology and Career Counseling learning objects located in the left navigation bar for this week, and review any relevant Instructor Guidance.       Reflect: Next, select a video from the list provided below, view it, and then reflect on its contents. 

• Exploring career goals with a young African American woman
• Goal Setting with a Young Divorced Parent
• Helping a Client Define His Career and Life Goals
• Narrative counseling: A male college student renews career plans (session 2 of 3)
• Vocational Counseling with a Female Chinese Client Studying in the United States

 Write: For your initial post: 

• Discuss the video’s content in relation to career counseling. Be sure to include terminology from both the textbook and your chosen video in your post.
• Describe ways in which basic characteristics of science are relevant to career counselors.
• Describe which theoretical models of career counseling appeared to be utilized by the counselor in the video. Explain your rationale.
• Identify usage trends of applied behavioral science by providing examples of the typical components of career intervention presented in the textbook that you observed in the video. Explain your rationale.
• Describe counselor and client behaviors you observed that indicated the counselor was working with the client in a culturally effective manner.

Your initial post must be a minimum of 200 words, and you must utilize at least one scholarly source (e.g., the course textbook