CPSY 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Vocational Rehabilitation, Differential Psychology, The Counselor

• School: Ball State University
• Department: Counseling Psychology
• Course: CPSY 400
• Professor: Yuye Zhang

Document Summary

Conceptually, the origins of trait-factor approaches to career counseling can be traced to frank. Parsons"s pioneering efforts to better match individuals with jobs. This matching process involved using an accurate understanding of an individual"s work-relevant attributes (skills, aptitudes, interests, etc. ) and a thorough knowledge of both jobs and the employment market to optimize job choice. One of the greatest challenges to this approach, then and now, involves how to best define individuals and jobs. It was not until the 1930s that statistical applications and psychometric methods had advanced to the point that the matching dimensions could be empirically derived and quantitatively evaluated. The minnesota employment stabilization research institute was established at the university of. Minnesota to assist workers who had lost their jobs due to the great depression. Minnesota researchers operationalized parsons"s basic concepts using the research methods of differential psychology to develop psychometric instrumentation and occupational classification systems.