Urgent Essay !

Instruction:

· Please make sure to use the below text book for the reading response if not the professor will not grade me correctly.

· Richard, S. (2009). Applying Career Development Theory to Counseling (Graduate Career Counseling)

· Responses to Readings (25%)

Questions are posed based on each assigned chapter from the textbook. These may be purely factual or may ask for your analysis or evaluation of key issues. You will write short essays in response (up to 1 typed, double-spaced page).

Response to Reading: Chapter 7: Due date 6/22/15

According to Gottfredson, circumscription and compromise are the major processes by which we arrive at self-defining career choices. Can you identify ways in which your own growth has followed these patterns? Are there ways in which the model doesn’t fit you? Discuss. http://www.udel.edu/educ/gottfredson/reprints/2002CCtheory.pdf

You will write short essays in response (up to 1 typed, double-spaced page).

Response to Reading: Chapter 9: Due date 6/22/15

Imagine three clients, each a high school science teacher considering a career change (recycling). One is a 25-year-old (who would typically be stabilizing), one a 35-year-old (comfortable and competent in her work), and one a 55-year-old (who has ‘plateau-ed’ and feels her work getting stale). What different issues do they face? How might this affect your work as their career counselor? You will write short essays in response (up to 1 typed, double-spaced page).

Response to Reading: Chapter 3: Due date 6/22/15

Status attainment theory predicts a person’s eventual level of occupational prestige. Suppose you are a school counselor in a working-class community, and opportunities for high school graduates (e.g., manufacturing) are declining. What strategies might you employ to guide students toward higher (but realistic) career aspirations? What obstacles do you foresee? You will write short essays in response (up to 1 typed, double-spaced page).

Response to Reading: Chapter 10: Due date 6/22/15

Think of someone you know who has gone through a (more or less) unwanted career transition. (This could be getting laid off or fired, a business failure, early retirement, or leaving school without finishing a program.) Describe how their reactions did/did not fit Hopson & Adams’ model. (You may interview them as part of this assignment.)

You will write short essays in response (up to 1 typed, double-spaced page).

Response to Reading: Chapter 15 Due date 6/23/15

Analyze your decision to enter the human services field using the CASVE model. What happened at each stage? Where did your decision-making process fall short of the ideal, such that you might have benefitted from a counselor’s aid? If you are a career-changer, you may instead analyze the process by which you entered your former occupation. You will write short essays in response (up to 1 typed, double-spaced page).

Response to Reading: Chapter 13 Due date 6/30/15

Human services professionals face an occupational challenge; they possess high-level professional skills, but because these graduate programs are relatively new, few job postings specify a master’s degree in human services. Discuss ways in which human services professionals might use planned happenstance to improve their chances of winding up in a desirable employment situation. You will write short essays in response (up to 1 typed, double-spaced page).

Response to Reading: Chapter 14 Due date 7/7/15

Expectancies (outcome expectancies and self-efficacy expectancies) are important determinants of behavioral choices. The value set on various outcomes (or goals) also influences behavior. Some clients cling to unrealistic expectancies (beliefs) or goals. Think of interventions that might modify each of these three variables. You will write short essays in response (up to 1 typed, double-spaced page).