Techniques For Enhancing Self Efficacy

In this paper, I will explain how working with diverse and multicultural clients influences career counseling goals and objectives. I will describe specific factors related to racial identity and aspects of culture that contribute to career development. Finally, specific insights are offered for counselors offering assessment and treatment to this specific population.

The arguments to explain career theories have been criticized for their lack of ability to explain career development among racial and ethnic minorities (Brown, 2002; Fassinger, 2001; Fitzgerald & Betz 1994), and among individuals with limited education and/or inferior socioeconomic status (SES) (Fassinger, 2001; Vespia, Stone & Kanz, 2001). In the meantime, the labor force in the United States of America (USA) has shifted into a more diverse and divergent force consisting of more female, immigrants, and ethnic and racial minority workers (Lerman & Schmidt 2011), which results in the need to develop models that are

One of the main objectives of these counselors is to help students reach their full potentials. In the occupational outlook handbook it states that; they may also overlook programs for career education. More often than not, school counselor’s work toward assisting students with problems related to their social and academic life as well as other unique needs. (Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2010-11 Ed.).

In schools all over the world today, School Counselors are crucial to assisting students, parents, school administrations, and the community. I believe that creating an effective counseling program that supports the counselors’ role in education will foster a close interaction between students and counselor to achieve success in their personal/social lives, academic achievements, and college readiness careers.

"The mission of school counseling is to provide a developmental and systematic comprehensive program that ensures academic, personal, social, and career development and achievement for all students," as such contemporary counselors have a lot on their plates (Rogers et al. 2011 p 8). Whereas counseling services were once thought of as necessary outside of vocational counseling, today's educational environments posit that counseling services are crucial to the academic, personal, and career success of today's students. Thus, the Miami-Dade and Hillsborough County School Districts have placed great importance on the role of the counselor, but there is still room for improvement in order to get to that ideal atmosphere where counselors can best help direct the lives of their students.

According to the American School Counseling Association (ASCA), the “purpose of the school counseling program is to impart specific skills and learning opportunities in a proactive, preventive manner, ensuring all students can achieve school success through academic, career, and personal/social development experiences” (Oberman & Studer, 2011, p. 1). The ASCA National Model is used by school counselors to show devotion to student success (ASCA, n.d.-c, p. 1). The four components of the ASCA National Model are foundation, delivery, management, and accountability (ASCA, n.d.-c, p. 1).

As a school counselor it would be a privilege to guide students to succeed both academically and personally. An area of particular interest for me is to guide and encourage students who may struggle academically to reach the fullest of their intellectual and educational abilities. The educational support of a student may determine their success in a fulfilling career path, of course, and as a Counselor I want to facilitate such growth and development for

It is important for health care leaders to develop independent criteria for measuring efficiency, effectiveness, performance, efficacy, and quality within their health organization. Although some may try to measure these with similar criteria, the most emotionally intelligent leaders should understand that these terms are not interchangeable and must be addressed in some aspect to be a good leader. Self-efficacy is the individual’s capability of producing a desired effect and can be utilized when evaluating the other concepts of leadership (Ledlow, 2018). Health efficacy is the ability for the provider or health organization to identity and improve the health outcome for a patient (Ledlow, 2018). Efficiency and effectiveness are sometimes

I have chosen to become a counseling psychologist who specializes in helping people choose their careers. I chose this career because I would like to help people who are struggling to find the career that is right for them. According to the American Psychological Association, counseling psychologists assist people in understanding and taking action on career and work issues, they notice how issues and human beings vary across the lifespan, and they have a huge appreciation for the “influence of differences” among people (race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability status) on mental well-being (n.p). I wish to help people choose the best career for them based on their interests.

I am responding to the article found in the Career Development Quarterly, “Using Narrative Career Counseling with the Underprepared College Student”. It was authored by Amber N. Hughes, Melinda M. Gibbons, and Blair Mynatt and published in 2013.

Counseling students is a challenging task that I am willing to accept with enthusiasm and optimism, which will transmit to my students. There are several qualities a counselor must possess in order to be effective. I believe that as a gain knowledge and understanding about the profession along with my personal skills I will be able to demonstrate efficacy. As a future school counselor I will

Gysbers (2013) defines what career readiness is and what the qualities of a career ready student is. Students today are required an education that provides them with the academic, career and technical, and guidance to be career ready upon graduating from high school. When a student is career ready they know how to participate in numerous current and potential life roles which include learning and working. Gysbers and Lapan in 2009 (cited by Gysbers, 2013) defined a career ready student as “a proactive, resilient, and adaptive style of interacting in the in the present and use that style to assertively move toward self-defined career futures that add meaning, purpose, and satisfaction to their lives.” Once a student meets the definition they

Career planning can seem so far fetched from most middle school students’ minds. Therefore, an effective career intervention program is designed to help 8th graders to begin the process of the decision making process and understanding how the career planning process works (Niles & Harris-Bowlsbey, 2013). Understanding how an individual’s life roles are interconnected is also an important aspect of career development and planning.

In schools all over the world today, School Counselors are crucial to assisting students, parents, school administrations, and the community. I believe that creating an effective counseling program that supports the counselors’ role in education will foster a close interaction between students and counselor to achieve success in their personal/social lives, academic achievements, and college readiness careers.

One of the methods in which the Career Development Center counsels students is through “walk-ins”, where students can come in without an appointment and can engage in a casual conversation with a counselor about topics such as internship or job opportunities, resume critiquing and developing an intended career path. A majority of the students who come in through walk-ins have no prior experience of applying for internships/jobs and and are often conflicted about immediately going to graduate school or working once they graduate. More often than not, these students are accompanied by self-defeating attitudes such as feeling inadequate for a job or internship due to a lack of experience, doubting their capabilities of getting a job/internship, expressing insecurities of not having a perfect GPA, or feeling extremely doubtful of having the ability to chose a desirable career path that is suitable to their interests or major. Sometimes the students that come in are so overwhelmed with these feelings that they will give up on finding an internship or discontinue using the Career Development Center services to develop a post-Graduation plan. This problem however, is not just a problem that exists at the Career Development Center at Purchase, but a problem that exists at Career Development Centers on college campuses nationwide. A 2013 study conducted by Andrews, Bullock-Yowell, Dahlem & Nicholson analyzed negative career thoughts, perfectionism and career decision-making