Dissertations / Theses: 'Guidance and career counseling'

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Rowe, Kirk (Kirk Lee). "Career Counseling with Academically Talented Students." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1994. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278574/.

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Academically talented college students have unique development needs that often go unmet. One area that is currently attracting more attention in the academically talented literature is career counseling. The purpose of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of individual and group career counseling interventions. Subjects included 54 students from a special Texas program that provides the opportunity for gifted students to attend college during their final two years of high school. One instrument used assessed identity, confidence, career goals, and professional identity. The second instrument evaluated whether the subjects had recently discussed career concerns, were seeing a vocational counselor, or seeking career information. A pre-test was followed by group or individual intervention, and a post-test was conducted two months later. Results indicated an overall decrease on the instrument assessing professional identity and career goals. This study revealed no difference in effectiveness between group or individual interventions. Further research in this area is necessary to develop and refine the most effective career counseling interventions for the academically talented student.

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Storck, William Karl. "A historical overview of career counseling and its significance in education." Online version, 2004. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2004/2004storckw.pdf.

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Fowkes, Kristyn Michelle. "An evaluation of Career Information System in secondary schools /." view abstract or download file of text, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1421620251&sid=3&Fmt=2&clientId=11238&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2007.
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Kerner, Emily. "The motivate to explore career intervention: design and investigation of a career counselling group for disengaged adolescent males." Thesis, McGill University, 2012. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=106296.

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Disengaged students are at risk for failing to complete high school. When youth drop out they not only risk facing unemployment and poverty, they also lose access to crucial supports and services that could smooth the transition from school to work. As these students are likely to seek work directly after high school, they need skills for adjusting and adapting to the world of work. To date, few studies have investigated how to engage at-risk youth in the process of career exploration and how to provide them with effective tools for navigating the school-to-work transition. This program of research focused on designing a group career exploration intervention to support the development of self-determination and career adaptability for disengaged adolescent males. The literature review summarizes key constructs in the theoretical framework (a multidimensional view of career exploration that integrates motivation and vocational development). The first manuscript details a Scientist-Practitioner Design Framework (SPDF). The SPDF is a methodological approach to designing an intervention and exploring its outcomes that uses the scientist-practitioner's clinical orientation as a guide. Manuscript two is a qualitative study that explores the experiences of participants' development of self-determination and career adaptability as a function of their group experience. Fourteen adolescent males, comprising two intervention groups, were interviewed about their group experiences. The interview transcripts were analyzed using a grounded theory method. The analysis yielded a model of Developing a Work Identity, characterized as a trajectory of development starting from lacking self-knowledge prior to the group to, after the group, knowing more about the self as it relates to work. This trajectory took two different pathways. One was influenced by active help-seeking and planning, as well as seeing career as a calling. This resulted in independent exploration and a global sense of agency. Participants who described the other trajectory did not engage in behaviours to advance their development. This trajectory was influenced by seeing career as a means to an end. It resulted in depending on others for ongoing exploration and a local sense of agency. Study two was conducted in order to learn more about how the group influenced the first trajectory. It is a case study of one participant's experience of developing a work identity and the impact of the group on his development. Results of this study suggested that structure, support from peers and the facilitator, experiential activities, and opportunities to engage in identity construction dialogue were all crucial mechanisms of change. Overall, this research program presents 1) a new methodological approach with potential for bridging science and practice, 2) an innovative career intervention for disengaged youth, and 3) preliminary insight into the contextual factors and mechanisms of change that contribute to successful career development of this population. Taken together, this work advances theory, research, and practice in vocational psychology, and gives voice to an underserved population.
Les étudiants désengagés sont en danger de ne pas compléter leur secondaire. Lorsque les jeunes décrochent, ils courent non seulement le risque de se trouver en situation de chômage et de pauvreté, mais ils perdent aussi leur accès à des soutiens et à des services cruciaux qui pourraient aplanir la période de transition entre l'école et le marché du travail. Comme ces étudiants tendent à se chercher du travail après le secondaire, ils ont besoin des connaissances nécessaires en vue de s'ajuster et de s'adapter au monde du travail. À ce jour, peu d'études se sont penchées sur la façon d'engager ces jeunes à risque dans le processus de recherche de carrière et de leur fournir des outils efficaces pour bien vivre cette transition allant de l'école au travail. Le présent programme de recherche mettait l'accent sur une série d'interventions d'exploration de carrières en groupe visant à soutenir l'élaboration de l'autodétermination et de l'adaptabilité de carrière pour les adolescents désengagés de sexe masculin. Le premier manuscrit présente en détail un modèle de cadre de conception pour le chercheur-praticien. C'est une approche méthodologique visant à concevoir une intervention et à en explorer les résultantes en utilisant l'orientation clinique du chercheur-praticien à titre de guide. Le deuxième manuscrit est une étude qualitative qui explore l'expérience menant au développement de l'autodétermination et de l'adaptabilité de carrière des participants comme fonction de leur expérience de groupe. Quatorze adolescents de sexe masculin formant deux groupes d'intervention furent interviewés quant à leurs expériences de groupe. Les transcriptions de ces entrevues furent ensuite analysées au moyen de la méthode de théorie à base empirique. L'analyse a donné un modèle en vue du Développement d'une Identité de Travail caractérisée comme une trajectoire de développement débutant par un manque de connaissance de soi, avant la formation du groupe, et se terminant, après le travail de groupe, par une meilleure connaissance de soi en relation au travail. Cette trajectoire a pris deux voies distinctes. La première fut influencée par la planification et la recherche d'aide active de même que le fait de voir la carrière comme une vocation. Il en a résulté une exploration indépendante et un sens global de responsabilisation. Les participants qui ont décrit l'autre trajectoire ne se sont pas engagés dans des comportements pour faire avancer leur développement. Cette seconde trajectoire fut plutôt influencée par le fait de voir la carrière comme un moyen d'atteindre un but. Il en a résulté une dépendance envers les autres pour une exploration continue et un sens local de responsabilisation. La deuxième étude fut effectuée pour en savoir davantage sur la façon dont le groupe avait influencé la première trajectoire. C'est une étude de cas de l'expérience d'un participant dans son développement d'une identité de travail et de l'impact du groupe sur son développement. Les résultats de cette étude suggèrent que la structure et le soutien apportés par les pairs et l'animateur, les activités expérientielles et les occasions de s'engager dans un dialogue de construction identitaire furent tous des mécanismes cruciaux de changement. En général, ce programme de recherche amène 1) une nouvelle approche méthodologique ayant un potentiel visant à jeter un pont entre la science et la pratique, 2) une intervention novatrice en matière de recherche de carrière chez les jeunes désengagés, et 3) un aperçu préliminaire dans les facteurs et les mécanismes contextuels de changement qui contribuent au succès en matière de développement de carrière auprès de ce segment de la population. Dans son ensemble, ce travail présente des théories, de la recherche et de la pratique dans le domaine de la psychologie professionnelle tout en donnant une voix à une population mal desservie.

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RUSS, KATHRYN ALIDA. "EFECTS OF APPALACHIAN CULTURE ON CAREER CHOICE." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1148499240.

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Wood, Rhonda. "Application of exploratory analyses to career counseling process and outcome research data /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 2004. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p3137765.

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Johnson, Berill McGregor. "Gender differences in the career experiences of counseling psychologists." Virtual Press, 1991. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/832993.

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This study used a survey to look for significant gender differences in the career experiences of doctoral graduates from one counseling psychology program. The following areas were examined: income, employment patterns, professional self-view, motivational values, and satisfaction. The participants in this study were 135 doctoral graduates (93 males and 42 females) who graduated over a 23 year period (1968-1990) from a counseling psychology program at a mid-size midwestern state university. They completed a four page, 34 item questionnaire. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize and describe the data; and analyses of variance, analyses of covariance, chi square tests of significance, and t-tests for means were used to test for significant differences.There were gender differences in the career experiences of counseling psychologists in this study. Male counseling psychologists earned larger salaries and larger total annual income than female counseling psychologists. Females were more likely than males to work part-time-only and males worked more hours than females. However, gender differences in salary and income remained after controlling for the number of hours worked. Experience, defined as the number of years since graduation, was not a factor in income differences, as there were no differences between early and late graduates. There was a tendency for proportionately more women than men to be employed in community mental health centers. Males published more articles than females. Males attached more importance to the motivational value "making a lot of money" and there was a tendency for more males than females to see themselves as scientist-practitioners and for more females to see themselves as practitioners. Both males and females were satisfied with their training and their careers.
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Hampl, Steven Paul. "Stress, personal and environmental resources, and strain in adult career counseling clients /." The Ohio State University, 1987. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487324944215444.

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ZIRKLE, Christopher. "Career Guidance and Counseling for Secondary Scbool Students in the United States." 名古屋大学大学院教育発達科学研究科附属生涯・キャリア教育研究センター, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/16891.

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Schofield, Emily G. "The Effects of Life Design Career Counseling on Public Relations Students' Self-Efficacy and Career Indecision." Ohio Dominican University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oduhonors1512772740616518.

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Olson, Elizabeth M. "An examination of university students' perceptions of their secondary career guidance programs." Online version, 2004. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2004/2004olsone.pdf.

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Gragg, Krista Marie. "Women, domestic violence, and career counseling : an experimental examination of the effectiveness of two career intervention programs /." view abstract or download file of text, 2003. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3095246.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2003.
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Finck, Ruth Ann Charles. "Project Success : a career counseling intervention program for economically disadvantaged women /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1996. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9712799.

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Hedrick, Deborah K. "Use of and satisfaction with a career information accessing strategy." Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/74715.

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Computer-assisted guidance and information systems have recently gained increased popularity among counselors and students. However, there has been little objective research performed on them. The result has been that counselors are often uncertain about the appropriate usage of these instruments. A popular computer-assisted information system which has received little study is the Virginia VIEW Career Search. The Career Search is an accessing strategy designed to lead the users to access occupational and/or educational information from the Virginia VIEW microfiche. The Career Search was adapted from the Michigan Structured Occupational Search, which was developed using the Department of Labor's (DOL) occupational classification system and the Ohio Vocational Interest Survey's weighting of the DOL's data-people-things classification. The purpose of this study was to clarify the appropriate usage of the Virginia VIEW Career Search. The study sought information concerning how the Career Search is being used in public schools in Virginia by assessing user satisfaction and determining whether the search does lead the users to access occupational and educational information. Finally, user satisfaction ratings and the results of the Career Search and the Ohio Vocational Interest Survey II (OVIS II) were compared. The sample consisted of 624 Virginia secondary school students whose school districts use both the Career Search and the OVIS II in their counseling programs. The students completed the Career Search, the OVIS II, and the Student Questionnaire. The Student Questionnaire includes a revision of Zener & Schnuelle's 1972 Feedback Sheet, which had been revised to include a questionnaire which assesses whether users seek occupational/educational information after taking the Career Search. A portion of the Feedback Sheet collected ratings so that satisfaction for the Career Search and OVIS II could be compared. Finally, the results of the Career Search and the OVIS II were compared. The results of the study indicated that users do access career information after taking the Career Search. One of the most utilized sources of career information is the Virginia VIEW microfiche occupational files. Users were generally satisfied with the Career Search, and felt that it helped them gain insight concerning appropriate careers for themselves, and was a good use of their time. Data was insufficient to make a comparison of the levels of user satisfaction for the Career Search and the OVIS II. The comparison of the results of the two instruments yielded limited data as well. However, approximately fifty percent of the subjects had matched results for the first OVIS II scale on their OVIS II Student Report and one or more occupational titles (viewscripts) generated from using the Career Search.
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So-Goodlin, Bernadette Grace. "Formative evaluation of the career consultant on call program /." View online, 2009. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131559486.pdf.

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Dencklau, Susan. "One Woman's Midlife Career Change| From Homemaker and Cosmetician to Public School Counselor." Thesis, University of Redlands, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3594525.

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This autoethnography focused on the following overarching question: How did I overcome the indoctrination and socialization in my early human development to accept the unexamined assumption that my life was limited to being a wife, mother, and cosmetologist that prevented me from aspiring to a career as a school counselor that would increase my sense of purpose in life using the framework of Erikson's stages of development and feminist thought as the theoretical lens for inquiry and analysis of my experience? Seven sub-questions were developed to guide the study. Analyzing the review of literature and my own experience related to the overarching question and sub-questions resulted in the emergence of twelve themes. These were socialization historicity, systemic societal power, freedom for self-determination, abandonment, sense of belonging, sense of responsibility, ethic of care, confidence, advocacy, personal transition, wounded healer, and authenticity . Erik Erikson's life stage theory, feminist theory and modern research comprised the theoretical framework for the study. Becoming an educational counselor at mid-life could only be told as one women's story, and this autoethnography provides just a small portion of what could be said about the experience.

Implications for practice and implications for future research were shared. The significance of the study was that it may help other females in their pursuit to understand their lives, help counselors in working with others, and contribute to the research on mid-life career change to become a school counselor.

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松本, 浩司, and Koji MATSUMOTO. "アメリカミシガン州における包括的スクールガイダンス・カウンセリングプログラムの展開 - スクールカウンセラーの役割およびその養成との関連に注目して -." 名古屋大学大学院教育発達科学研究科附属生涯学習・キャリア教育研究センター, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/6493.

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Henning, Judith Davidson. "Medical Specialty Selection Influences, Satisfaction, and Idealism within the Framework of Career Counseling." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1428526833.

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Rose, Kelly Ann 1967. "The decision-making processes of dual-career couples." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291461.

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Dual-career couples are a rapidly growing population who face many challenges due to their complicated lifestyle. The qualitative case study method was employed to specifically explore the decision-making processes of three dual-career couples in order to broaden the knowledge base about these couples and to yield information that would facilitate the development of educational and counseling programs to better serve this population. The following methods were used to elicit information from the participants: audiotaped discussions of four career-related scenarios and individual responses to a short values survey. Factors identified in the couples' decision-making processes included money, geography (location), opportunities for career advancement, satisfactory job opportunities for both partners, family, future children, opportunity costs, career and personal happiness, and financial security. Recommendations for future research and suggestions for counselors, educators, and employers were made.

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Reich, Lia Y. "An examination of University of Wisconsin-Stout students' perceptions of their secondary career guidance programs." Online version, 2002. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/2002/2002reichl.pdf.

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Borden, McKay. "Effects of career guidance strategies for females on career maturity and locus of control of high-achieving twelfth-grade females." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39731.

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This study was designed to examine the effectiveness of the following career guidance strategies: career information investigating, job information interviewing, shadowing, panel of positive female role models, parental involvement and group counseling on career maturity and locus of control of high-achieving twelfth-grade females. Participants in this study were thirty-two high-achieving twelfth-grade females currently enrolled in advanced placement English classes, who were currently taking advanced mathematics, advanced science, and advanced foreign language courses; or who had completed three years of advanced mathematics, advanced science, and advanced foreign language courses. The design of this experiment was a pretest-posttest, experimental/control group design. The participants in the treatment group participated in a ten-week career guidance program involving strategies to increase career maturity and improve internal locus of control utilizing the results of the Caree~ Maturity Inventory, Counseling Form B-1 and the Different situations Inventory.
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Halferty, David Stanton. "A Comparison Of The Career Assessment Inventory And The Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory In A Minority, High School Drop-Out Sample." Scholarly Commons, 1985. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/uop_etds/3221.

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Problem. The Strong-Campbell Interest Inventory (SCII), an inventory with some validity, was directed at the professionally oriented client. The Career Assessment Inventory (CAI) appeared in 1976 as an inventory normed on the non-professional, blue-collar worker, directed at the non-baccalaureate student. There had been little research on minority, non-college oriented youth. Purpose. The purpose of this study was to compare the predictive and concurrent validity of these two inventories for a drop-out, non-college oriented population. These inventories were compared for predictive validity to short-term occupational outcome, and for concurrent validity to Expressed Interest. Also, the distribution of interests across the six RIASEC themes was compared. Procedure. For the years 1977-1981, participants in the High School Equivalency Program, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, were interviewed to ascertain their Expressed Interests and were given either the SCII or the CAI during the first three weeks of program attendance. Following graduation, short-term occupational outcome data, or college major (if there was no occupation) were recorded. Chi-square was used to compare the inventories on hit-rates for short-term occupational outcome. Findings. No significant differences were found in the predictive validity of the CAI and the SCII to short-term occupational outcome, using inventory scale scores, expressed interest, consistency, differentiation, and cross-scale congruence, with this specific population. The distribution of interests across the six RIASEC themes of the inventories showed significant differences at the .05 level. The distributions of RIASEC categories were significantly different (.01 level) for men versus women. On the CAI, a greater proportion fell in the Conventional theme for males; the Social and Enterprising themes for females. For the SCII, a greater proportion fell in the Artistic theme for males; the Realistic and Conventional themes for females. Recommendations. This study should be replicated using long-term follow-up data with minority, non-professionally oriented populations.

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Layne, Kimberly Dawn 1968. "Goals and career progress of female community college honors graduates." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278043.

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This study presents information gathered from a follow-up survey of 124 female community college honors graduates from the years 1989, 1990, and 1991. Results are intended to provide descriptive information in understanding the role that successful completion of community college education plays in the career development of women. Participants provided information via a questionnaire regarding demographics, factors related to academic success, choice of major, current education and employment status, and career and educational goals for the future. Results indicate that female community college honors graduates are likely to be reentry women who have career related goals. One to three years after graduation, the women are employed full-time, studying for bachelors degrees, or working in the home. It appears that community colleges provide women with an opportunity to achieve formal education at virtually every life stage. Conclusions and implications are drawn for career counselors and community college personnel.

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Kreamer, Lisa Marie. "Undergraduate art students: Influences affecting the career decision to major in art." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278611.

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This thesis surveys 171 undergraduate art students at the University of Arizona to evaluate the effect their high school art teachers had on their career decision to enter a college art program. The parental influence is addressed. Student responses are viewed by gender, classification and major. Findings indicate the teachers influence less than 50% of their students and that parents have a greater influence in the decision process. There are definite gender differences, males talked with their parents more than females but females expressed more support from parents once in an art program. Students in commercially viable studio programs, graphic design and photography, report greater parental support.

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Szabo, Zsuzsanna Rozalia. "Sex-role, attributional style, and career choices: A cross-cultural analysis." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280755.

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In the contemporary society choice of career is sex-stereotyped. There are more females in educational and nursing careers, and there are more males in engineering and science careers. Females and males perceive their roles in the society in a sex-stereotyped way and they try to fit into culturally appropriate sex-roles. People make causal attributions for different situations in life and think and behave according to the causal attributions they make. The research question of this dissertation asks if sex-role and attributional style affect career choices, and if the answer is different across cultures. Two studies were concerned with the relationship between sex-role, attributional style, and career choices at college and high school levels in two different cultures (the United States and Romania). Comparisons were made also between females in single-sex high school and coeducational high schools. A third study determined the changes in career choices following attributional retraining. Results from the studies show that career choices are sex-stereotyped and sex-roles influence choice of career in both cultures. The sex-stereotypical choice of careers is more evident in Romania. Females in single-sex education schools report more adaptive sex-roles and attributional styles, and they choose more diverse career fields than females in coeducational schools. Attributional retraining is related to changes in career choices.

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Husby, RoseAnn. "Evaluation of a K-12 career portfolio system in the Barron School District." Online version, 1998. http://www.uwstout.edu/lib/thesis/1998/1998husbyr.pdf.

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Barrow, Clark Eugene. "An examination of factors that influence career decision-making certainty in high school students." [Pensacola, Fla.] : University of West Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/WFE0000171.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of West Florida, 2009.
Submitted to the School of Education. Title from title page of source document. Document formatted into pages; contains 148 pages. Includes bibliographical references.

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Ebert, Cale Crawford. "The effects of WIN Courseware use on community college students' WorkKeys® scores." [Pensacola, Fla.] : University of West Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/WFE0000151.

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Tate, Kevin P. "Career interest and efficacy in eighth grade males and females /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9924933.

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Mnyaka, Lindani Ntuthuko. "Impact of formal career guidance and counselling during high school at UniZulu." Thesis, University of Zululand, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1564.

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A mini dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts in partial in fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology at the University Of Zululand, 2017
Career guidance and counselling services are an important and essential starting point in career development. In the South African context, career guidance services are often under-utilised by high school learners, as a result, a large proportion of matriculants leave school with uncertainty about what careers they want to pursue. Much focus has been placed on improving matriculation results but it is almost counterproductive when career guidance is given minimal attention. The college and career-readiness agenda seems to be given very little attention and this weakness results in a number of challenges which negatively affect society, as the normative expectation in today's society is for a person to complete high school and acquire skills which will contribute to the improvement and rebound of the economy and for people to give back to the communities in which they live and thrive. There are presently limited trained personnel in South Africa to provide career guidance services and the Department of Higher Education and Learning has observed this problem and is currently reviewing the competency framework of career guidance services. The general aim of this study was to investigate the role and impact of formal career guidance and counselling, and the absence thereof, during high school. The study sought to unveil whether recipients of formal career guidance and counselling during high school had more career insight than non-recipients. Further, the study looked into the roles played by career guidance material and informal sources utilised by learners during high school before making career choices and also assessed the level of satisfaction which the participants experience in their current careers. The study was conducted at the University of Zululand main campus in KwaDlangezwa in northern KwaZulu-Natal. The target population was 50 academic staff from all four faculties at the University of Zululand. However, due to circumstances beyond the researcher’s control, only 34 questionnaires could be used at the time of the data collection. Stratified random sampling was employed in the study. The data was collected using a self-developed questionnaire by the researcher and data was analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) Version 10.0 computer programme. Descriptive statistics (frequency tables, percentages, cross tabulations, graphs and charts) were used in data analysis. The study revealed that the majority of the participants left school without career guidance. As a result, they stumbled in finding suitable careers post matric. It was also observed that learners from all school types faced a similar problem regarding the lack of career guidance services, career material and other sources of information regarding careers. The limitation of this study was that the sample was not a large sample due to time and budget constraints and the results were only from the study area.

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Rush, Lee Covington. "Family relationship dynamics and the career decision-making self-efficacy of African-American college students." The Ohio State University, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392303979.

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Carpenter, Carol Ann Marsh 1945. "Career development/practical training handbook for international students in the United States of America." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/278749.

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International students attending colleges and universities in the United States are eligible for temporary professional employment to complement their academic training. However, most of these students, who are culturally different, have not had the exposure to career development concepts that would prepare them for the job search and American workplace. Most educational institutions do not have available the specialized career counseling and job placement information needed to prepare this unique population for their cross-cultural vocations. A handbook with a cross-cultural perspective was developed to aid the international student in identifying career resources available in this country, interpret the immigration regulations governing practical training and prepare him or her for reentry into a career in the home country.

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McRell, Juanita Marie 1960. "The effect of relocation on the career of the trailing spouse." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/291455.

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Despite misgivings about the effect of relocation on the family, companies are relocating a record number of employees. Particularly effected by these transfers is the significant other in the relationship--the trailing spouse. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect relocation has on the career of the trailing spouse. Participants of this study were women over the age of 18 who were currently married and had relocated because of their husband's career. To assess the effect, the Career Development Questionnaire was developed and administered. Results of this study showed there was a significant difference in attitude toward relocation between the homemaker and those who chose careers outside the home. The homemakers stated that relocating had no effect on their careers. Due to relocation, the career group agreed they had to: change occupations, change career goals, and take lower positions or salaries in order to find work.

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Nikischer, Andrea B. "Social class and the STEM career pipeline an ethnographic investigation of opportunity structures in a high-poverty versus affluent high school." Thesis, State University of New York at Buffalo, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3598726.

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This research investigates science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) high school opportunity structures, including student experiences with math and science course sequences and progress, college guidance and counseling, and STEM extracurricular activities (Weis and Eisenhart, 2009), specifically related to STEM fields and career and college choice, for top-performing math and science students. Differences in these structures and processes as they play out in two representative high schools that vary by social class and racial/ethnic makeup are examined. This comparative ethnography includes 36 school and classroom observations, 56 semi-structured individual interviews, and a review of relevant documents, all gathered during the focal students' junior year of high school.

Three data chapters are presented, discussing three distinct, yet interconnected themes. In the first, I examine the ways in which chronic attendance problems and classroom distractions negatively impact math and science instruction time and lead to an instruction (time) deficit. In the second, I compare the math and science course and extra-curricular offerings at each school, and discuss the significant differences between sites regarding available STEM exposure and experience, also known as "STEM educational dose" (Wai, et al., 2010). In the third, I investigate available guidance counseling services and STEM and college-linking at each site. Perceived failures in the counseling services available are discussed.

This dissertation is grounded in the literature on differences in academic achievement based on school setting, the nature/distribution of knowledge based on social class, and STEM opportunity structures. The concepts of "social capital" and "STEM capital" are engaged throughout.

Ultimately, I argue through this dissertation that segregation by race, and most importantly social class, both between and within districts, damages the STEM pipeline for high-performing math and science students located in high-poverty, low-performing schools. I further argue that both federal and state accountability-based school reform efforts are failing to improve outcomes for students with proficiency and interest in STEM learning and STEM fields, and in fact, these reforms are harming top performing students and high school STEM opportunity structures. Recommendations for changes in policy and practice, and for further research, are provided.

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Kumaravel, Sharanya. "Enriching the genetic counseling recruitment pipeline: A national cross-sectional study of high school counselors." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1276975834.

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Horstman, Jason Joseph Horstman. "COMPARING CAREER DECISION SELF-EFFICACY AMONG HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS." University of Findlay / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=findlay1500763334896801.

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Savickas, Suzanne. "Inconsistent Holland Vocational Personality Patterns: A Multiple Case Study of Origins, Experience, Development, and Career Implications." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1549370453200127.

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Lee, Eddie Kyo. "Cultural tension and career development for Asian American college students| A phenomenological study." Thesis, California State University, Fullerton, 2013. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3574076.

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This mixed methods, phenomenological study examined how cultural tension influences career development for Asian American community college students. Students initially completed Phinney's (1992) Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM) and an instrument developed for this study called the Cultural Identification Survey. The mean for ethnic identity search was 3.49 and the mean for the ethnic identity commitment was 3.97. High exploration with high commitment corresponds to Phinney's third stage of ethnic identity development, ethnic identity achievement. On the Cultural Identification survey, the mean for "I identify more with my parents' culture" was 3.55, the mean for "I identify more with White culture than my parents' culture" was 2.80, the mean for "I identify with both White culture and my parents' culture" was 3.45, and the mean for "I feel caught between White culture and my parents' culture" was 2.62. Fourteen students who indicated either "often" or "all the time" to the statement "I feel caught between White culture and my parents' culture" participated in the interview portion of the study. The 14 participants received a mean of 3.30 for ethnic identity search and a mean of 3.56 for ethnic identity commitment on the MEIM corresponding with the ethnic achievement stage. Participants described how they experienced cultural tension through their relationships with their parents. The results indicated that through cultural tension, participants were able to move through the stages of ethnic identity development as described by Phinney (1990), Parental influence on career development, including their support, their understanding of careers, and their exposure to careers, was also found to be part of the participants' experiences. Cultural tension and their parental involvement created learning experiences that had an impact on the career decision-making process.

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Bergmo-Prvulovic, Ingela. "Social representations of career and career guidance in the changing world of working life." Doctoral thesis, Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation, Högskolan i Jönköping, HLK, Livslångt lärande/Encell, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-26292.

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This thesis explores the meaning of career as a phenomenon and its implication for career guidance. In 1996, career as a phenomenon was more or less considered to be an obsolete or even extinct phenomenon. Since then, career guidance has received increased attention along with the increased interest in lifelong learning strategies. This thesis is motivated by the paradoxical message of career as an extinct yet living phenomenon. Career is outlined as a bridging issue that involves several contexts and is characterized by a number of dominating discourses in tension with one another. Two educational fields linked by career are of particular interest: the field of education and training in working life and the educational field of career guidance counselling. This thesis explores the meaning of career among a triad of various interested parties in this time of transition in the world of working life, and it explores the sense in which such understanding(s) of career influence policies and practices of career guidance. The thesis is based upon four separate studies. The first study explores, in order to disclose underlying views on career, how the language of European policy documents on career guidance characterize career and career development. Qualitative content analysis is used as the basic method to approach the subject in the texts, with an inductive development of categories. The analysis then conducts a sender-oriented interpretation, based upon a textual model for analyzing documents. The results revealed that underlying perspective on career in the documents derive from economic perspective, learning perspective and political science perspective, and communicate career as subordinated to market forces. The second study pays attention to the receiving side of the ideational message, disclosed in the first study. The second study extends the analysis of the first study with an exploration of ethical declaration documents for the profession. The exploration focuses on significant key principles, the profession's role and mission, and significant changes between the initial and the revised ethical declaration. Similarities and differences were compared, combined with the first study’s results as an interpretive frame for analyzing what consequences and significance the core meaning of career at structural level will have for career guidance practice. The results revealed an implicit shift of emphasis in the career guidance mission, which creates uncertainty regarding on behalf of whom the guidance counsellor is working. The third study explores common-sense knowledge of career, among a group of people influenced by changing conditions in working life. This study explores what social representations people have about career. The study also explores how people's anchored thoughts reflect scientifically shaped thoughts, and how they relate to thoughts currently dominating on structural level. Results disclose how the group explored has stable social representations of career that are anchored in the past, in previous working life conditions, and that contrasts with perspectives dominating in the structural context. The group also has dynamic representations, which provide space for negotiation of the meaning of career. The fourth study explores guidance counsellors' social representations of their mission and of careertherein. Results generated four social representations expressed in argumentative pairs of opposites. The first pair is concerned with their professional mission and reveal their professional identity. The second is concerned with career. Their view on their mission and their professional identity is in sharp contrast with how they experience others' interpretation of their mission, as being a matching practice on behalf of the business sector. Guidance counsellors reject the general view of career among others' and they regard career in the context of guidance as something other than the common view. At the same time guidance counsellors reveal difficulties in really clarifying the meaning they ascribe to career. The empirical findings of each of the four studies are finally interpreted as a whole in the final section of this thesis. With support from social representations theory, the empirical findings illuminate the sources as bearers of social representations of career, which both meet and clash.

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Murray, Susan E. "Working alliance and session impact in career counseling for Vietnam era veterans with and without post-traumatic stress disorder /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9842555.

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Rungqu, Nokhanyo Marylin. "A career guidance counselling and assessment programme for disadvantaged high schools, in the case of the Eastern Cape, in South Africa." Thesis, University of Zululand, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/2014.

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A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts in fulfilment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy in Community Psychology in the Department of Psychology at the University of Zululand, 2019.
The study is a career assessment and counselling programme for disadvantaged high schools in the Eastern Cape Province, in South Africa. The specific aim was to guide learners through a process of career exploration in order to make appropriate career choices and plans. The sample consisted of 90 blacks, 1 coloured and 2 Indians from selected schools in the Eastern Cape Province. The main objectives were to formulate a career assessment and counselling programme, as an ongoing process of change, and not as an event, to empower disadvantaged students through their participation in the process; to nurture learning through engendering a tolerance of mistakes and differences in ideas, and to provide opportunities for the development of all. Using a qualitative research design, self-administered questionnaires were distributed to respondents. A convenient/purposive, non-probability sampling procedure was utilised. Descriptive statistics were used to to analyse demographic data, including frequencies and percentages. Qualitative data, obtained from open-ended questions of the survey questionnaire, were content analysed to identify the main themes. Nine themes were identified. The results showed that many disadvantaged high schools did not have educators who were qualified in career guidance issues. Furthermore, there was a lack of governmental support in career guidance in disadvantaged schools. Additionally, there was a lack of equipment and funding required in career guidance. It has been indicated that the use of psychologists and x psychometric assessment in career assessment will improve the quality of career guidance. It can be concluded that many disadvantaged and poor schools do not have educators who are qualified in career guidance issues. Disadvantaged schools do not have adequate resources such as money to pay qualified professionals to help learners in making optimised and better career decisions. The South African government is not supportive of these disadvantaged schools. Learners continue to be ignorant as far as career guidance issues are concerned. Many students are not aware of the benefits of counselling.

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Glavin, Kevin W. "The Role of Distinctiveness in Assessing Vocational Personality Types." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1236741098.

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Rönngard, Jeanette, and Petra Palhoto. "Karriärvägledning kontra karriärcoaching." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Lärarutbildningen (LUT), 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-28884.

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Undersökningsområdet i detta examensarbete är karriärcoaching och studie- och yrkesvägledning. Inom dessa båda yrken undersöks flera aspekter som exempelvis den historiska bakgrunden, vilka samtalsmetoder som används och på vilket sätt yrkesverksamma vägledare och karriärcoacher arbetar. Likheter och skillnader undersöks också, detta för att få kunskap om huruvida det kan finnas en konkurrens mellan yrkesgrupperna på arbetsmarknaden men också för att uppmärksamma eventuella möjligheter till samarbete. Vi har genomfört en enkätundersökning med 115 studenter på studie- och yrkesvägledarprogrammet vid Malmö högskola samt gjort intervjuer med yrkesverksamma personer inom både vägledning och karriärcoaching. Syftet med enkätundersökningen var att få en uppfattning om hur mycket kunskap som fanns kring karriärcoaching hos dessa studenter och om de önskade få mer kunskap i området. Ambitionen med intervjuundersökningen var att ge en så täckande bild som möjligt av de båda yrkesområdena. Resultatet visar på både skillnader och likheter mellan yrkena och att det finns en möjlig konkurrenssituation men även möjligheter till samarbete.

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Albien, Anouk Jasmine. "Exploring grade 12 Kayamandi adolescents' career influences using the Systems Theory Framework of Career Development." Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/85790.

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Thesis (MA)--Stellenbosch University, 2013.
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Major gaps exist in the understanding of career development across diverse population groups and cultures, a lacuna that postmodern career counselling approaches aim to address. Career choices have been historically constrained for many South Africans by the Apartheid system, indicating the prescribing effects that socio-political and economic factors exert on the field of career psychology. Because disadvantaged adolescents are such an under-researched group, research is needed to provide cogent accounts of their experiences. The Systems Theory Framework of career development (STF) was chosen to contextualise the multitude of career influences present in facing a key life transition in Makupula High School learners in the Kayamandi township. The present research examined the complex interplay of contextual influences that impacts this sample of Grade 12 learners in making career decisions, to provide insight into perceived career opportunities, enablers and unique contextual constraints. The research aimed to identify individual, social and environmental-societal level influences present in career decision-making, using the qualitative career measure My Systems of Career Influences (MSCI) as well as individual interviews and a focus group. Respondents‟ accounts of self-awareness, surrounding environmental resources, influences of significant others (parents, teachers and peers), and past, present and future effects were analysed. At an individual level, a scarcity of opportunities for self-reflection and critical thinking was observed, which culminated in limited insight into personal abilities and poor integration of personal information in occupational choices. High self-efficacy beliefs and expectations were noted, with a sense of responsibility assumed for constructing successful career paths. However, high order cognitive processes, such as future planning, were absent, showing the need for career counselling to build career adaptability and resilience. Social level influences were the most prominent influences, indicating the importance attached to family support, although a lack of parental involvement in career planning was voiced due to the low occupational status of parents. The school context provided examples of subject mastery and career information from teachers; in contrast, friends were described as dual entities, being supportive and providing negative influences. A lack of visible local role models and success pathways resulted in career choices being based on media depictions of careers as well as media role models, in the absence of additional accessible career information. The theme of career myths illustrated the need for accurate career information, and the theme of cultural identity emerged. Africentric narratives of overcoming suffering formed resilient mechanisms that were linked to a black racial identity, yet constrained movements away from extended family structures and the township. The reconciliation of “western” career aspirations with rural roots in forming a coherent self-concept may be the greatest challenge in vocational identity development for disadvantaged adolescents. At the environmental-societal level, Kayamandi was discussed as an enabling and disadvantageous environment, and reference was made to the resources and language barriers that were inherent in Stellenbosch town. Lastly, MSCI feedback indicated the necessity of reflection processes, and criticisms were also discussed. Themes that emerged from the learners‟ career stories can assist in providing insight that would aid future career development, counselling processes and the creation of context-specific interventions.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Daar bestaan groot leemtes in die verstaan van loopbaan-ontwikkeling by verskillende bevolkingsgroepe en kulture, „n gaping wat postmoderne beroepsberaders poog om aan te spreek. In die verlede is beroepskeuses vir vele Suid-Afrikaners beperk deur die Apartheidstelsel, wat dui op die voorskriftelike impak van sosio-politiese en ekonomiese faktore op die gebied van beroepsielkunde. Gegewe dat daar min navorsing gedoen is aangaande benadeelde adolessente, is navorsing nodig om koherente weergawes van hul ervarings te verskaf. Die Sisteemteorieraamwerk van loopbaan-ontwikkeling (Systems Theory Framework, STF) is gebruik om die menigte van beroeps-invloede te kontekstualiseer wat gepaard gaan met „n belangrike lewensverandering by leerders verbonde aan die Hoërskool Makupula in die Kayamandi-dorpsgebied. Die huidige navorsing het die komplekse wisselwerking van kontekstuele invloede ondersoek wat hierdie steekproef van graad 12-leerders beïnvloed het rakende loopbaankeuses, en poog om die nodige insig te verskaf van waargenome loopbaangeleenthede, ondersteuningsnetwerke (“enablers”) en spesifieke kontekstuele beperkings. Die navorsingsdoelwitte behels die identifisering van individuele-, sosiale- asook omgewings-en-samelewingsvlakke wat loopbaankeuses beïnvloed. Die kwalitatiewe loopbaanmeetinstrument “My Systems of Career Influences” (MSCI), individuele onderhoude en „n fokusgroep is gebruik. Die respondente se weergawes van “self,” beskikbare omgewings-hulpbronne, invloede van betekenisvolle ander (ouers, opvoeders en portuurgroepe) asook die impak van die verlede, hede en die toekoms is ontleed. Die individuele vlak van ontleding het gebreke rakende self-refleksie en kritiese denke aangedui, wat gelei het tot die beperkte insig van persoonlike vermoëns en die gebrekkige integrasie van persoonlike inligting aangaande loopbaankeuses. Die respondente het sterk oortuigings van self-doeltreffendheid getoon, en „n sin van die nodige verantwoordelikheid vir die daarstelling van suksesvolle loopbaanrigtings. Hierteenoor egter het hoë-orde kognitiewe prosesse, soos toekomsbeplanning ontbreek, wat die behoefte aan loopbaanberading getoon het sodat loopbaan aanpasbaarheid en veerkragtigheid ontwikkel kan word. Die sosiale vlak van ontleding het die mees prominente invloede getoon wat die belangrikheid van familie-ondersteuning aandui, alhoewel die gebrekkige betrokkenheid van ouers rakende loopbaanbeplanning geblyk het as gevolg van die die lae beroepstatus van die ouers. Die skoolkonteks het voorbeelde gebied van die vakke wat die respondente bemeester het asook loopbaan-inligting soos verskaf deur die onderwysers; hierteenoor is die vriende beskryf as tweevoudige entiteite wat aan die eenkant ondersteuning bied, maar aan die anderkant ook die negatiewe invloede. „n Gebrek aan sigbare plaaslike rolmodelle en suksesvolle loopbaanrigtings het gelei tot loopbaankeuses wat gebaseer word op die voorstellings van beroepe soos in die media, asook media-rolmodelle in die afwesigheid van aanvullende en toeganklike loopbaan-inligting. The tema van loopbaan-mites het die behoefte aan akkurate loopbaan-inligting ge-illustreer; en die tema rakende kulturele-identiteit het na vore gekom. Afri-sentriese narratiewe van die oorkoming van swaarkry wat gelei het tot veerkragtige hanteringsmeganismes, is gekoppel aan „n swart rasse-identiteit, alhoewel dit ook die bewegings weg van die uitgebreide familie-strukture en die dorpsgebied belemmer. Die versoening van “westerse” loopbaan-verwagtings met die landelike verbondenheit om „n koherente selfkonsep te vorm, kan die grootste uitdaging wees in die ontwikkeling van „n loopbaan-identiteit vir benadeelde adolessente. Op die omgewings-samelewingsvlak van ontleding is die volgende bespreek: Kayamandi as „n bemagtigende én „n nadelige omgewing; die hulpbronne; en probleme aangaande taalkwessies wat deel is van die Stellenbosse gemeenskap. Ten slotte, die MSCI terugvoering het die behoefte aan refleksie-prosesse aangedui en kritiekpunte is ook bespreek. Temas wat geïdentifiseer is in die leerders se loopbaan-stories kan bydra tot die verkryging van insig vir toekomstige loopbaan-ontwikkeling, beradingsprosesse, en vir die ontwikkeling van konteks-spesifieke intervensies.

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Callahan, Marguerite (Marguerite Louise). "Identification of the Competencies Needed by Secondary & Post Secondary Career Counselors to Initiate and Maintain Articulation of Secondary & Post Secondary Comprehensive Career Development Programs and Services." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1997. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc278803/.

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This study researched effect of selected demographic variables on the self-perceived competencies of career counselors at secondary and post secondary institutions in Texas. Demographic variables were years of service, educational level, type of institution, age of counselor, size of institution, and percentage of vocational enrollment. One hundred career counselors, fifty secondary and fifty post secondary career counselors were mailed copies of the Professional Needs Assessment and a Demographic questionnaire.

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Ohashi, Takashi. "The effect of Holland's RIASEC interest inventory on the vocational identity development of Japanese high school students." Ohio : Ohio University, 2009. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?ohiou1237247929.

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Hinkelman, Jeanne M. "The effects of Discover on the career maturity and career indecision of rural high school students : a randomized field experiment /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1998. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9904847.

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Taiwo, Mofuluwake Oluwadamilola. "A comparative study of communication perspectives of factors influencing students’ career choice at UNIZULU and DUT." Thesis, University of Zululand, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/1706.

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A dissertation submitted to the Faculty Of Arts in fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Masters in Communication Science in the Department of Communication Science at the University Of Zululand, 2017
The choice of career is a delicate matter that demands caution and serious attention. Many people have become victims of circumstances of incorrect career choice due to lack of proper career guidance and information. On the other hand, there is a debate among academic researchers in the field of career counselling and guidance that learners in urban areas have more advantage in understanding career choice compared to their rural counterparts. The findings, however, have been controversial. Hence, this study sought to examine and compare the extent to which communication perspective on factors influencing students ‘career choice in rural and urban tertiary institutions of learning are the same or different. An in-depth literature of prior studies in the field of counselling and guidance was conducted to create the theoretical foundation for this study. On the basis of the literature review, a conceptual framework for the Department of Basic Education was developed. A self- designed questionnaire under descriptive survey was adopted and simple random technique was employed to administer a total of 370 questionnaires to students from one rural and one urban university in South Africa. The participants comprised first-year undergraduates from Durban University of Technology (DUT) and University of Zululand (UNIZULU). The data were analysed through the MoonStats and later transferred to tables and average mean. The study indicated that friends, internet, and university open day were the major channels of communication by which career services were provided to potential university ‘students. The study also revealed that first-year students from DUT were well-equipped on knowledge of career choice information than the first-year students of UNIZULU. Students from the two universities have similar views that parents, admission requirements and matriculation results were the major factors influencing their choice of course of study in the higher institution of learning. The study further offered recommendations and further study based on the research objectives of the study.

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Toledo, Liliane de Paula. "Para além da escola e da empresa: contribuições para o atendimento em orientação de carreira." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/47/47134/tde-25032015-152315/.

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Pesquisas internacionais a respeito da orientação de carreira revelam que se trata de um campo em fase de construção, principalmente se forem consideradas as propostas de atendimento para adultos. Observam-se estudos com nomenclaturas, abordagens teóricas, públicos-alvo e temáticas variadas e que, salvo exceções, não divulgam informações sobre os modelos e procedimentos de atendimento adotados. Por outro lado, no dia a dia de certas empresas, em instituições de ensino e no espaço clínico notam-se inquietações das mais diversas por parte de trabalhadores acerca de sua vivência laboral. Quando se trata de executivos, há consultorias especializadas em coaching e mentoring disponíveis para atendê-los; enquanto no caso de jovens estudantes de certas classes sociais do Ensino Médio, vale a tradicional orientação profissional. Porém, afora esses dois perfis - executivos e estudantes do Ensino Médio -, verifica-se a quase inexistência de um serviço baseado na Psicologia para atender os trabalhadores que desejam repensar suas carreiras, trajetórias laborais e escolhas profissionais. Esta investigação teve o intuito de aperfeiçoar uma proposta de atendimento clínico em orientação de carreira, a partir de diretrizes elaboradas por pesquisadores e integrantes do Serviço de Orientação Profissional do Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade de São Paulo (SOP-IPUSP). Buscou-se compreender a demanda dos participantes em relação à orientação de carreira e as variáveis presentes no campo sociolaboral de suas experiências para poder construir formas de intervenção que pudessem atender a seus desejos. O método adotado foi a pesquisa de intervenção, na qual foi colocada em prática uma forma de atender em orientação de carreira para três trabalhadores não-executivos adultos com, no mínimo, cinco anos de experiência profissional e que procuraram espontaneamente o SOP-IPUSP, visando testar e consolidar a prática em questão. Elementos do referencial psicanalítico nortearam a análise e a condução dos trabalhos. Os principais resultados apontaram que a narrativa funciona como guia da orientação de carreira, a partir da qual se planejam e organizam as intervenções do psicólogo e todas as atividades. Consolidou-se o desenho de dois momentos da orientação, a investigação conjunta e o projeto desejante e que constituem a proposta psicossocial em questão, integrando as dimensões subjetivas do projeto de vida com as dimensões objetivas de um plano de ação, o que denota a necessidade de uma proposta intervenção que articule e trabalhe com estas duas dimensões de forma conjunta para atender as demandas de adultos em orientação de carreira. As diretrizes dos atendimentos e pesquisas do SOP-IPUSP foram explicitadas e ampliadas e ressaltou-se a supervisão clínica, os constantes estudos e interlocuções como suas marcas. Foram identificadas nuances distintas no atendimento a trabalhadores dos setores privado e público de atuação. Ademais, apresentou-se o panorama internacional das pesquisas sobre carreira
International research reveals that career guidance and counseling is a field under construction, especially when the process for adults is considered. With few exceptions, studies for classification, theoretical approaches, target audiences and several themes do not disclose information about adopted models and procedures. On the other hand, on the daily routine of certain companies, educational institutes and in the clinical setting, a number of concerns towards workers labor experiences are observed. Additionally, when it comes to business executives, coaching and mentoring specialized consultancy is available to help; meanwhile, as for young students of Ensino Médio (High School) from certain social classes, the resource is the traditional vocational guidance and counseling. Yet, apart from these two profiles executives and Secondary School students -, there is barely a service based on Psychology to offer assistance to these workers who wish to rethink their career, their labor trajectories and their professional choices. This research aimed at improving a proposal to career counseling clinic service, departing from the directions developed by researchers and members of Serviço de Orientação Profissional do Instituto de Psicologia da Universidade de São Paulo (SOP-IPUSP) Department of Professional and Career Counseling at University of São Paulo. The purpose was to understand the demand of participants concerning career counseling and the variables present in their social and labor field experiences in order to build ways of interventions that could cater to their wishes. In order to evaluate and consolidate the practice, the method adopted was the intervention research. This was carried out by offering the service of career counseling to non-executive adult workers who had at least five years of professional experience and had searched the service at SOP-IPUSP spontaneously. Elements from Psychoanalysis guided the evaluation and the execution of the work, and the main results showed that the narrative works as a guide in career counseling, in such a way that the interventions of the psychologist as well as all other activities are planned and organized from the narrative itself. The design of two moments was consolidated in the process: the joint research and the desiring project, they constitute the psychosocial proposal in the matter as they incorporate the subjective dimensions of life project and the objective dimensions of an action plan. This means that there is a need for a proposal of intervention that articulates and works with both dimensions in order to meet adults demands in the process of career counseling. The directions for services and researches at SOP-IPUSP were described and expanded, besides, clinical supervision, constant studies and dialogs are highlighted marks. Different nuances were identified in providing service to workers coming from the public and private sectors. Moreover, the study presented an international overview on career researchesv

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Burns, Stephanie Tursic. "The Predictive Validity of Person Matching Methods in Interest Measurement." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1327781557.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Guidance and career counseling'

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