CNPS 363 Lecture Notes - Career Counseling, Employment Counsellor, Baby Boomers
16 Apr 2013
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First architect of the vocational counseling process; father of the vocational guidance movement. Tackled issues such as: effective matching of persons and jobs, educational and social reform, human dignity and the right to choose. All about human dignity, free will, right to choose a career. Coined the term vocational guidance : early term for career counseling: saw as a one-on-one process. Developed techniques to help school children, adolescent school leavers, & adults come to true reasoning about jobs available to them (e. g. , client self study) Find your fit, and don"t quit. frank parsons. Parsons building on his work over the last 100 years. Documenting differences in occupational content and activity. Researching the different perspectives and needs of women, the needs of persons in ethnic and minority groups for career guidance. Recipients of career or vocational guidance have become more diverse, both in terms of groups presented and in terms of the range of issues they present.
