Donald Super 's Life Span Theory

A professional who holds a Master’s degree in counseling my also chose to have a career as a Vocational counselors. They may also be referred to as a career or employment counselors. These counselors offer counseling services in places other than the school setting. Their main objective is to help individuals with career choices, examine an educational background, employment history, skill and abilities, personalities and other aspects to help them. Additionally, career counselors may offer support services to people who have lost their jobs or experiencing career change issues (Baxter, 1997).

The Life-span, life-space theory has a focus on self concept. It is believed that career development is a continuous, life long process. Vocational self concept develops through physical and mental growth, observations of work, identification with working adults, general environment, and general

The majority of lifespan development theories analyze growth and development from two major possibilities, that is, development as a continuous process and development as a discontinuous process (Berk, 2007). Continuous development is defined as the process where an individual builds on the same skills exhibiting at an early age while the discontinuous development is the process that allows individuals to exhibit new and different ways of understanding and responding to different situations and occurrences (Berk, 2007; Koren, 2011). The lifespan development theories that explain growth and development as a process of stages follow a discontinuous development perspective (Berk, 2007).

Have you ever asked yourself, who am I? What makes me the individual that I am today? Well, you are not alone. Many individuals have been trying to figure out why they have certain characteristics or why they did not have those leadership or charismatic traits that they wish they could have. All these questions can be explored through the study of life-span development. Within this science, we can explore the factors that influence who you are with identity development, gender, stereotypes, ethnicity and culture.

What I have learned over the time in this course is career counseling incorporates all aspects of the individual. Yes, career counseling is focused on helping people find that career that fits them best matching their interests and personality but deals with other issues in the individuals’ life. The theory that resonates most with me is Holland’s theory and the use of Self-Directed Search (SDS) to identify interests, abilities, and personality (Sharf, 2013). When we were able to complete the Strong Interest Inventory and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Career Report and compare the result with the SDS to recognize the consistencies. These assessments reinforced my choice of becoming a professional counselor, although with my past career history

As already mentioned existing career theories dealing with vocational personality and environment Holland (1976) and Scheine’s anchors (1978) have been well respected and very adequate for many years.Those theories were helping many people to form and succeed in their career paths.

Eric Ericksons theory is applied to different stages of the life span age zero to fithty plus a important stage for a individual is between 12 and 18. The theory could be used in relation to understand a individual's behaviours of a adolescent going in to care. At this key stage the individual is going through a stage where they are finding there own identity and they are face with confusion of the role they will have in life. A important factor at this stage is developing identity through social interactions of good role models this has paramount importance. The individual may have confusion when they have not yet found there career path. A career path that gives them inner self worth, motivation and belongingness of the role they have in

Donald Super (American Psychologist,1989)established a developmental pattern which emphasized how individual interact with occupational inclinations in making one's self-concept and his acknowledgment that this self-idea can change with new encounters over time. Prior him numerous scholars took a career development as a single choice, but Super viewed career development as a lifelong activity. Super established his theoretical ideas in the 1950’s, acknowledging that people change over their lifetime, and also recognized various areas or six fundamental “life-spaces” that help make a personal identity, which includes parent/homemaker, worker, citizen, leisure, student, and child. Such a significant number of these elements infer that other people

Introduction The following is an approach to career counseling using Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT) as a foundation. Using a hypothetical case study, this paper demonstrates some examples of interest assessments, art directives and experiential assignments that can be incorporated into a SCCT framework. The framework begins with information gathering of environmental influences, is then followed by assessment of barriers and self-efficacy, and is concluded with intervention strategies. In each stage, both the case study and summaries of research pertaining to SCCT are used to create an example of an integrative approach to career counseling.

Patton and McMahon (2006) developed a systems theory framework for development of careers called the Therapeutic Framework. The system categorizes the various factors that influence the choice of career into individual factors (for both the learner who is to choose their career and their counselor), organizational factors, or environmental factors (Patton & McMahon, 2006). The system also recognizes the effect of timing on these factors; thus incorporating the aspects of past, present and future (McMahon, Forde, & Dickson, 2015).

At SCHOOL NAME career interventions will help the students become more career aware and developed for the nearing future. In the study of 2000, The Effects of a Two-Semester Career Exploration Intervention Class on… Scores of High School Seniors, “the results demonstrated that the intervention significantly improved students’ awareness and career exploration behavior. After..., 56% of the experimental group scored in the High Profile Type both attitude and knowledge compared to 16% of the control and 22.7% of the national norm”(O’Hara 1). In other words, after career development intervention, those students scored better than the average person as well as the student control group. As a result, the career interventions will help students apply

Some scientist and theorist believe that a person 's current position in life is the result of a combination of their experiences and interacting influences. This can occur from infancy through very old age, even before birth. For example, career choices can be affected by personal experiences or inborn abilities. This may be from the individual or the influence of adult role models, which can be positive or negative. According to Sigelman, Rider, & De George-Walker (2013), human development is shown to be very complex, with many interconnected processes through the modern lifespan perspective. This context is based on seven key assumptions, where I will analyse in depth in this paper and will show how the modern life span perspective is relevant to my decision to become a Social worker based on my experiences.

I chose Supers Developmental Theory. I chose this theory because I feel that it is explained well and for me it is easy to relate to. Supers Theory emphasizes that career development is life long process from childhood into late adulthood that occurs throughout our developmental stages (Helm, 1996). In 1990 Super modified his theory because he found that people could recycle back through stages which is not dependent on age or professional experience but personal growth (Helm, 1996). I feel this is a true statement because some of the stages of development for myself had occurred at different ages than some of the stages.

Career Counseling, or Career Services depending on the institution, is frequently offered on a one-on-one basis, but at times this service is provided through group workshops, classes, or computerized guidance systems. Traditionally a standard function of the career services role is to help students develop job search skills however the scope of the

Psychologists have long been interested in understanding how individuals make career choices and how their careers evolve over time (Weiten & Lloyd, 2006). Theorists have developed two influential models for these issues, they are Holland’s Trait Measurement and Matching Model and Super’s Development Model.