Discuss the intake interview process. In your discussion be sure to include examples of questions that should be asked during the intake interview.
Intake interviews are important to the counseling session between the client and the counselor as the process is the first interactive experience that occurs between the client and the clinician. Clinical psychologists often use the process to initiate the discussions at the first meeting between the client and the clinician. The intake interview is important as the clinician gets the opportunity to highlight the expectations of the interview and the amount of time that the interview will take from the onset.
The main purpose of the interview is to establish and diagnose the different problems that the client may have prior to the sessions. In the intake interview, some clinicians use the DSM axes to diagnose the patient through a mental status examination and develop a plan to treat the client. Some clinicians will use to intake interview session to determine their strengths and weaknesses in helping the client. The clinicians who feel as though the client’s problem are excessive and may make referral to other sources.
Both the client and the clinician use the intake interview process to develop opinions of each other. These opinions can be negative and positive and will affect the relationship between the client and the clinician. Conversely, the client’s views of the clinician will affect the treatment process and therefore, the clinician must express a clear understanding of the client’s needs and emotions in order to create a sense of security for the client. The communication style of the client is important in the intake interview as this helps the client to respond to the different questions that the clinician may ask. Some common interview questions include:
What are your reasons for choosing the program?
What is your ideal environment?
How do you overcome your greatest challenges?
What is your ultimate life goal?
What are the benefits and shortcomings of assessments in Career Counseling?
Many children today are not clear on the career choices that they want to make, but planning for a career is important as it helps to shape the type of life that people will have in the future. Career counseling is important to helping children and adults to find their career paths. The choices of a career can become overwhelming as there are a large number of career options that people can choose. Career counselors help persons to identify their strengths and weaknesses and use these qualities or talents to find the most suitable career choices
Conversely, there are benefits to career counseling as the client can use the career counseling to determine their weaknesses and strengths, set goals that will lead to productive results, identify and determine ideal career choices, develop education support and guidance and developing support throughout the search for jobs.
Discuss the challenges faced by immigrants in preparing for careers.
Immigrants face a number of cultural, social, and economic challenges as they attempt to find meaningful careers in a new country. Steve Norman argues that immigrants enter the United States to start a new life and yet these immigrants face intense challenges that are often overwhelming (Norman 1). In fact, immigrants faced more hardships such as trauma from war, poverty and rape in their native countries (Norman 2) and continue to face economic social challenges in the United States. The limitations to finding jobs arise from the changes in cultural practices and the lack of job opportunities. Many immigrants find that there is strong competition from the natives of their new homes as there is prejudice against some minority groups. Immigrants go to countries such as the United States to try to achieve the American Dream but find that it is difficult to find decent jobs that will help them to improve their lives.
Some immigrants face the further challenges as they cannot find jobs that will match their professional skills (Rodriguez 4). These immigrants find that despite their level of education in a particular field, there are thousands of people in the new country who have degrees and experience in the field. Additionally, the immigrants have to contend with the problems of being illegal in the country and this reduces the prospects of finding productive careers in their new field. In addition, the language barrier in the host country also cause challenges for those who are seeking careers in the new countries. Career counselors help these immigrants to find courses that will help them to develop the language and in turn create new opportunities for learning. In the Canadian Press, Employment Minister Jason Kenney suggests that the government will take steps to improve the job opportunities for immigrants (Kenney 1) and recognize the foreign credentials of the immigrants as they are instrumental to the economic development of the country.
Discuss techniques to ensure success when working with Dual Career couples.
Dual-career couples face the challenge of finding more than one jobs as the process takes compromise, patience, hard work, dedication and luck. With the changes in the economic and the economic crisis, it is already a challenge for workers to find a single job. The problem intensifies with workers who have dual careers and are couples as these factors can cause damage to the relationships. Career Counselors help these couples to deal with the challenges that they may face especially when the couples vie for academic positions. Arguably, dual careers have become a economic necessity and a personal goal for many couples especially those who live in high-cost regions in the United States.
While the challenges are great, career counselors help these couples to develop the necessary skills to build a level of respect where each partner is willing to compromise in order to make their dual-career relationships work. The career counselor bases their work on the various studies on the family that deals with the expectations of the emerging family and the challenges that they face in balancing their work and home duties (Zuckner 255). One of the most important techniques to helping people in dual career relationships build positive professional and personal relationships work is engage employees in building a network that offers support and guidance to these couples.
Career counselors often give advice to these couples and encourage them to work hard to become attractive employees so that potential employers will be willing to employ these couples. In addition, career counselors help these persons to learn strategies that will help them to become flexible as the academic job market is intense. Diversity in the job field will also influence the opportunities for dual career couples as finding jobs in the same organization is almost impossible. While there are a number of challenges for couples in the field, the benefits are great as each partner will understand the stress and challenges of the other partner and this will reduce the problems in the relationship.
On the other hand, dual career couples fall victims to the trailing spouse syndrome as one partner cannot effectively deal with the success of the other partner. This syndrome leads to frustration, jealousy, and resentment (Benson, 3). But, universities have helped to build partnerships as they readily attempt to place people in working relationships that will foster understanding and improve the relationships of the couple. In essence, dual career couples are more understanding of each other in their relationship and are better able to cope with the challenges of the relationships.
Discuss Super’s Career Development Life Cycle in terms of the role of the Career Counselor.
Super’s Life and Career and Development Stages
Donald Super argues that people adapt to changes more readily in their lives as they are not static based on his differential ideas and the trait and factor theory (Zuckner 47). The personal changes impact the views that people have of the world and their careers and are able to work through their talents and skills based on the different roles that they face. In essence, Super suggests that understanding self is important to making sound judgments on vocational choices that allows for improvements and satisfaction in their careers. In fact, Super argues that self-knowledge is one of the vital factors in understanding the way the human mind operates and the choices that people often make.
Career development and career counselors are important to understanding the major stages in a person’s life. According to Zuckner, counselors will learn from the developmental theories that help persons to narrow the choices that they make for their careers based on their self-awareness, experiences, interests and social class (Zuckner 47). Super suggests that Growth, Exploration, Establishment, Maintenance and Disengagement all create unique tasks in developing one’s career as these tasks allows for a number of changes in the decisions that people make and throughout their career and later in retirement. Arguably, Super’s theory speaks to the ways in which people view career practices. The stages are not necessarily chronological occurrences, but Super suggests that people go through these stages if they want to have meaningful careers.
In general, Career Counselors are important to helping people to develop their skills “workers” as they facilitate sessions that will help to improve the need for self-satisfaction and that leads to the understanding that self-concept is valuable in assessing and integrating work into the stages of life and life development. Conversely, Super’s theory is instrumental in helping career counselors in creating measures that will help to broaden the scope of career practices. In essence, the theory allows career counselors to help their clients to identify their place in the career development continuum and further help people to understand that the choice of a career is based on the activities and the goal of selecting the ideal career. Super states that in making a vocational choice individuals are expressing their self-concept, or understanding of self, which evolves over time. People seek career satisfaction through work roles in which they can express themselves and further implement and develop their self-concept.
Develop a well written essay discussing the role of the Career Counselor at the High School level. Be sure to discuss the challenges facing the counselor, the multiple aspects of the Career Counselor position, etc. Feel free to use outside resources as appropriate.
Based on the changes in technology and the global market, students are in need of guidance as they adjust to the changes in the society. Counselors face the challenge of having to deal with students who are confused by the changes in the society. Nonetheless, if they are to help students to become positive models for the future, the counselor must assume the role of one who helps to prepare high school students to make decisions about the future and to help these students to anticipate the consequences of their actions (Zuckner 386). In fact, adolescents face serious challenges that affect their personal growth and development. Parents are often the last resort for these children and counselors often assume the role of mother and guide in helping students to develop their career paths. Additionally, the changes in the economy also create challenges for the adolescent as many of them would want to pursue higher education but cannot do this because of their financial challenges. This poses a problem for the career counselor who now has the task of trying to help the students to find scholarships that will help them to fulfill the goals that they have for the future.
Furthermore, the rapid changes in personal growth and development also create challenges for the adolescent who may falter in their academic performances. The career counselor faces the challenge of helping the adolescent to understand that the changes are inevitable. Additionally, the counselor has the task f trying to help the students to create opportunities for growth and development through careful planning and assessment of the events that should take priority in the lives of these children. Vernon Zuckner suggests that in order to effectively help these students, the career counselor should assess or evaluate each student based on their race, gender, academic achievement, socioeconomic status and ethnicity (Zuckner 165). This assessment will allow counselors to effectuate changes in the adolescent based on their “strengths and weaknesses” (Zuckner 23) and lead to positive changes in the way adolescents view their careers.
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