Answer the following: Post your original response in the 3-2-1-Q format. Discussion 1 Main Post: 1.  Explain how people view work as part of their lives and the lives of others. 2.  Identify the characteristics of a good theory. 3.  Discuss the interrelationships among and between work, family, and other life roles including multicultural issues in career development. Discussion Response Guidelines: Discussion posts should always be thoughtful and courteous and include some references or direct evidence from the unit’s content, readings, or assignments to support your statements. Discussion 2 Main Post: 1.  Discuss the similarities and difference among the career counseling processes for men, women, and sexual minorities. 2. Describe the process of Multicultural Career Counseling 3.  Identify resources that can be used by clients with special needs to cope with their problems. 4.  Identify the major problems facing individuals who bring special concerns to the career counseling process. Discussion Response Guidelines:   Discussion posts should always be thoughtful and courteous and include some references or direct evidence from the unit’s content, readings, or assignments to support your statements. Discussion 3 Main Post: 1.  Differentiate among the various approaches to career development assessment. 2.  Identify several types of inventories and qualitative approaches that can be used in the assessment process. 3. Discuss the career development program in the context of the ASCA national model and identify the steps in developing a career development program from each level of a public school. 4.  Identify the problems associated with developing a career development program in a post-secondary institution. 5.  Describe the guidelines consumers should follow when selecting a career counselor. 6.  Discuss the dual aims of career development in industry. 7.  What is the objective of program evaluation? Discussion Response Guidelines:   Discussion posts should always be thoughtful and courteous and include some references or direct evidence from the unit’s content, readings, or assignments to support your statements. Discussion 4 Main Post:   1.What are the special advantages of occupational information acquired using O*NET.  2.Compare the advantages and disadvantages of different types of occupational information. 3.What have older and/or retired members of your family told you about jobs when they were younger?  4.What do news stories in local and regional newspapers suggest about change in the workplace? 5.Identify the major categories of services offered via O*NET 6.List five types of student/adults that might have problems using online career services. Discussion Response Guidelines:   Discussion posts should always be thoughtful and courteous and include some references or direct evidence from the unit’s content, readings, or assignments to support your statements. Discussion 5 Main Post: 1. Bri ...

1. Answer the following: Post your original response in the 3-2-1-
Q format.
Discussion 1 Main Post:
1. Explain how people view work as part of their lives and the
lives of others.
2. Identify the characteristics of a good theory.
3. Discuss the interrelationships among and between work,
family, and other life roles including multicultural issues in
career development.
Discussion Response Guidelines:
Discussion posts should always be thoughtful and courteous and
include some references or direct evidence from the unit’s
content, readings, or assignments to support your statements.
Discussion 2 Main Post:
1. Discuss the similarities and difference among the career
counseling processes for men, women, and sexual minorities.
2. Describe the process of Multicultural Career Counseling
3. Identify resources that can be used by clients with special
needs to cope with their problems.
4. Identify the major problems facing individuals who bring
special concerns to the career counseling process.

2. Discussion Response Guidelines:
Discussion posts should always be thoughtful and courteous and
include some references or direct evidence from the unit’s
content, readings, or assignments to support your statements.
Discussion 3 Main Post:
1. Differentiate among the various approaches to career
development assessment.
2. Identify several types of inventories and qualitative
approaches that can be used in the assessment process.
3. Discuss the career development program in the context of the
ASCA national model and identify the steps in developing a
career development program from each level of a public school.
4. Identify the problems associated with developing a career
development program in a post-secondary institution.
5. Describe the guidelines consumers should follow when
selecting a career counselor.
6. Discuss the dual aims of career development in industry.
7. What is the objective of program evaluation?
Discussion Response Guidelines:
Discussion posts should always be thoughtful and courteous and
include some references or direct evidence from the unit’s

3. content, readings, or assignments to support your statements.
Discussion 4 Main Post:
1.What are the special advantages of occupational information
acquired using O*NET.
2.Compare the advantages and disadvantages of different types
of occupational information.
3.What have older and/or retired members of your family told
you about jobs when they were younger?
4.What do news stories in local and regional newspapers
suggest about change in the workplace?
5.Identify the major categories of services offered via O*NET
6.List five types of student/adults that might have problems
using online career services.
Discussion Response Guidelines:
Discussion posts should always be thoughtful and courteous and
include some references or direct evidence from the unit’s
content, readings, or assignments to support your statements.
Discussion 5 Main Post:
1. Briefly, describe the theoretical positions of a trait-and-factor
and a developmental theorist
2. Identify the major propositions of Brown’s values-based

4. theory
3. What are the primary factors involved in the individual’s
perceptions of accessibility to occupations according to
Gottfredson?
4. Super’s theory has been described as “white bread” or
culturally biased by some? Defend the use of Super’s ideas with
minorities.
5. Discuss Krumboltz’s idea of preparing people for conditions
of uncertainty.
Here is a website with some good historical information
regarding Parson's and Trait-Factor
theory:http://wps.ablongman.com/wps/media/objects/208/21394
4/trait.pdf
Discussion Response Guidelines:
Discussion posts should always be thoughtful and courteous and
include some references or direct evidence from the unit’s
content, readings, or assignments to support your statements.
3-2-1 Format:
• 3 things you learned in the chapters. (This should show that
you really read the material and thought critically about it. Tell
what you actually learned about a topic not just the “name” of
it.)
• 2 things you still wonder about from the text or other

5. readings.(This should show thought not just sentences chosen
from the chapter in bold print.)
• 1 thing from the chapters/readings you plan to implement in
your classroom or career. (Tell how you will use it and how it
will impact your classroom/career)
• Q ask a question at the end of the post that your classmates
can answer in their response to your question