CNPS 363 Lecture Notes - Social Environment, Strong Interest Inventory, Family Values
16 Apr 2013
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Theory: a group of logically organized laws or relationships that constitute an explanation for a phenomenon in a discipline: provides a foundation to understand and predict behavior, provides perspective to help direct/organize information. A counselor"s selection of theory depends on: the counselor"s personal view, the counselor"s style of counseling. Helps us extract to apply for the client and the counselor. To guide professional practice as counselor, to choose potential interventions. 4 basic assumptions: 6 personality types: riasec, 6 environment types: riasec, people search for environments that match their category (matching p & e, a person will be most satisfied with their career if they"re matched. Predictive of whether someone will like their career but not whether they will be good at it. Realistic environment: makes physical demands on the person; ability to work with things rather than people; need technical competencies and physical agility, work setting: tools, machines, or animals that the individual manipulates.
