PSY 6635 Midterm (Part 2) 100% Verified answers

The essential skills and goals of career counseling correct answers Counselor Skills 1. Helping Skills = counselors need unconditional positive regard, genuineness, congruence and empathy Attending Skills Questions Statements and Reflections Continuation Responses Giving Information, Not Opinion Reinforcement Family Background Exploration Assessment Interpretation Goals of Career Counseling 1. Selection of an Occupation 2. Adjustment to an Occupation Implicit Goals - assumptions made by the counselor Explicit Goals - aggreements made between counselor and client about goals The ethical principles that guide counseling correct answers Autonomy = respect that clients make their own decisions Nonmaleficence - do no harm Beneficence = help clients by promoting health and well-being Justice - fairness in dealing with clients and other professionals Fidelity - honoring commitments to clients, colleagues and studetns The National Development Assocation has a code of ethics The role of theory in career counseling correct answers Theory = a group of logically organized laws or relationships that constitute explanation in a discipline General Principles for Judging a Theory correct answers 1. explicit about its rules and theorems 2. precise about the limitations of their predictions 3. need to be tested 4. needs to be consistent and clear Trait and Factor Theory correct answers Based on the work of Frank Parson, Choosing a Vocation (1909) Trait & Factor = the assessment of characteristics of the person and the job Step 1: Gaining Self-Understanding = interviews and discussions, as well as test and inventories are used, especially pertaining to interests, aptitude, achievement, values and personality