This document provides information about career counseling. It discusses that career counseling aims to help individuals choose or change careers by understanding their interests and skills. It describes the roles of career counselors in providing assessments, advice, and guidance to help clients identify suitable career paths and goals. The history of career counseling is also summarized, tracing it back to Frank Parson's pioneering work establishing vocational guidance in the early 20th century.

1. CAREER
COUNSELLING
SAMEEHA. T. S
APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
1ST MSC PSYCHOLOGY

2. COUNSELING
• Counselling is a broad field that aims at helping people and
providing them with assistance with their mental health and
well-being.
• There are several types of counselling that deal with different
domains of an individual's life, such as Marriage and Family
Counselling, Rehabilitation Counselling, Mental Health
Counselling, Substance Abuse Counselling and Guidance
and Career Counselling.

3. CAREER COUNSELLING
• Career counselling also known as career guidance.
• Counselling intended to help an individual to choose or change a career.
An individuals career is one of the most significant parts of their life and
with many different career options to choose from, individuals get
confused as to what career is right for them.
• Career counselling helps individuals understand their interests and skills
that in-turn help individuals choose the right career path. A career
counsellor can help individuals by outlining and talking about one's innate
potentials and career alternatives.

4. • In career counselling the individuals receive guidance from
professional counselors that provide expert advice on the
potentials, aptitude, motivations, skills and shortcomings with
the use of carefully designed assessment tools.

5. WHAT DOES A CAREER COUNSELLOR
DO?
• A career counsellor is a therapist or a life mentor who is qualified in
providing career counselling, discussing career goals, providing
individuals with appropriate career planning and interpreting aptitude and
ability tests.
• Career counsellors work with individuals who have various questions
regarding career paths to choose from.
• A career counsellor helps individuals get a clearer idea as to what career
path is right for them, they also help plan long term and short term career
goal.

6. • Career counsellors with the help of aptitude tests and interest
tests understand an individual's skills and abilities.
• Based on the reports the counselor then works along with the
individual to find for a potential career choice. From helping
choose the right course, college to choosing the right job, the
counselor guides the individual in mapping the entire pathway
to the desired goal.

7. HISTORY OF CAREER COUNSELLING
• Career counseling, or vocational guidance as it was originally known, has a long
history within the counseling professions.
• Career counseling was born in the United States in the latter 19th century out of
societal upheaval, transition, and change.
• This new profession was described by historians as a progressive social reform
movement aimed at eradicating poverty and substandard living conditions that
had been created by the rapid industrialization and consequent migration of
people to major urban centers at the turn of the 20th century.

8. • Frank Parsons
• Frank Parsons began the Vocational Bureau of Boston. He had the idea of helping people
to discover what careers were available to them.
• His focus being on their skills and interests to help fit them with the right career. He
urged for vocational guidance to become a part of the public school system. Although he
never developed a formal theory of career development.
• He is credited with being the foundation from which career theory has birthed from. He
believed that individuals should understand themselves and have specific knowledge of
the world of work. Parsons also believed that a person should actively seek their career
then you were more likely to have job satisfaction, employers’ cost would decrease, and
employees’ efficiency would increase.

9. • Parson’s ideals were later given a new name; “trait and factor” theory.
This theory was believed that we can describe a personality by specifying
their main characteristics such as honesty, laziness, ambition and so on.
This theory began the implementation of questionnaires and assessments
to articulate individuals’ traits.

10. • John Holland
• Some psychological theories of personality preferred to focus on the early
childhood life experiences that they believed predisposed individuals to
want to desire a particular occupation.
• Holland, however, has become the most researched and most influential
approach to trait-oriented career development.
• He put forth that in our culture, most people can be categorized by one of
the six types; realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, or
conventional. Once an individual has been categorized you can begin to
search for a work environment that would allow you to live these skills
and abilities.

11. COUNSELLOR ROLES
• Career Counselling helps them understand the career options that they have, and
how to pursue them.
• Career Counselling helps them understand their own strengths and weaknesses
with regard to their present course or profession, and lets them know what career
they would be suited for.
• Career Counselling gives them a platform to voice their opinion about what they
would like to pursue, as well as discuss the obstacles that they may be worried
about.

12. • Career Counselling makes the transition from one field to another a non-stressful
event.
• Career Counselling helps give them the required confidence to change their
domain, with the support of an experienced mentor.
• Develop positive working relationship with faculty, administrative
and co-workers to achieve desired goals.

13. • Develop career services programs that will help student in
exploring and planning career options.
• Work with students on their needs for career development.
• Conduct trainings, workshops, lectures, presentations, and other
events to develop career planning and employability skills for
students.

14. • Research and analyze current employment trends in various
industries.
• Maintain a database of student academic and employment
records
• Educate students on resume building, interview skills, and
professionalism.

15. • Conduct mock interviews and job search workshops for students.
• Conduct career awareness events and job fairs for students..

16. DIFFERENT SETTINGS
• One of the most obvious settings is a private practice. This is a popular choice among counseling
professionals. In a private practice, the professional would hold appointment-based counseling sessions. They
could specialize in many different fields, such as family therapy, substance abuse counseling, or individual
psychotherapy.
• You can also find working in community settings, such as a hospital or the health department. Often
professionals in these settings would assist individuals with diagnostics and referrals for further treatment.
• Another setting for these professionals is the legal system, where they may consult or work within the prison
system. You could see these professionals providing expert opinions at a trial, working to rehabilitate an
inmate so they can integrate back into society, or helping an inmate adjust to incarceration.

17. • Group homes, long-term care facilities, and short-term care facilities are also
settings in which professional counseling services are needed. Individuals are
typically placed in these types of care facilities because they lack the ability to care
for themselves on either a permanent or temporary basis. Professionals in these
settings would assist individuals with managing life skills.

18. STAGES OF CAREER COUNSELING
• Stage 1 : Getting to know
Gathering of data
Awareness
• Stage 2 : Exploration
• Stage 3 : Decision making
• Stage 4 : Preparation
• Stage 5 : Implementation of plan

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