Essays on Career Counseling

Abstract

Traumatic brain injury is an acquired injury to the brain that results from an external blunt or penetrating force to the head while; intentional hypoxia is the loss of oxygen supply to the brain which leads to a continuum of injury severity. A review of current literature on this topic suggests that comparisons can be readily drawn between traumatic brain injury and hypoxic brain injury in a rehabilitation setting. Even so, diagnosis of hypoxic brain injury and traumatic brain injury is essential in providing guidance on decisions of treatment. Treating intentional hypoxia, however, involves an establishment of the desired ...

Counseling involves giving the professional talk to an individual to help in a particular life aspect either by advising or recommending from experience. There are several challenges that individuals encounter in life ranging from professional aspects, social to religious issues and therefore need to share thoughts with an expert or someone who can walk them through the challenges. Considering people are of different personalities and temperaments, an approach that was successful in a counseling session with someone possibly with the same problem may not work out with a current client with regards to professional counselors. There are therefore several ...

Christian Faith and Career Counselling

Career Counselling: A Holistic Approach Vernon G. Zunker's book, ‘Career Counselling: A Holistic Approach' is a good resource book for career counseling programs. The book is in its ninth edition and gives valuable insight to career counselors on the current job market and the various external and internal factors that can influence career development. Globalization and its effects is a major factor to be considered by any individual and more so a career counselor. The book addresses these concerns in addition to the current economic, social trends that impact the workplace and the workforce (Zunker, 2014). The book's main ...

Discuss the intake interview process. In your discussion be sure to include examples of questions that should be asked during the intake interview. Intake interviews are important to the counseling session between the client and the counselor as the process is the first interactive experience that occurs between the client and the clinician. Clinical psychologists often use the process to initiate the discussions at the first meeting between the client and the clinician. The intake interview is important as the clinician gets the opportunity to highlight the expectations of the interview and the amount of time that the interview ...

Competition for jobs in any career are on the increase due to the fact that there are very many qualified people in all careers this days and psychologists are not any different from the rest of the people (Kidd 2006). Having this in mind together with the knowledge that I have acquired to this day, I would really like to pursue a career in psychology as a vocational counselor. Of all the other careers in this field I choose it because as a career counselor, everybody needs a bit of counseling at some point in life and will therefore seek my help and ...

According to research conducted by Zunker (2005, p. 132), personality traits have two different approaches that define them. These include the nomothetic method and the idiographic one. However, the nomothetic method believes that individuals inherit their personality traits and there is no way the surrounding environment can affect them. However, the idiographic approach to personality differs with the nomothetic one because it draws focus on entire personalities of people. For example, it specializes on factors such as richness and complexity that are imperative in understanding the deeper details of an individual. Ferguson (2009, p. 132) also asserted that there ...

Introduction

The culture of the United States has all the qualities of a traditional country in the fields of arts and science, language, religion, and foods. American culture has its influences all over the world. The United States is enriched with different cultures and traditions, i.e. Native Americans, Africans, Asians, and the Latin Americans. No official language is present in the United States. Round about 30 to 50, types of English languages have become the official languages in all the States of America . There is free choice of religious practices in the United States. All types of people live there, ...

Education

Abstract Minority students that can be targeted for retention programs include students from the African-American, Hispanic, Native American, Filipino and Hawaiian ethnicities. The issues that need to be addressed in order to retain minority students in higher education nursing programs include more academic preparation, more support from faculty, and the availability of health the insurance. The wrong perceptions about nurses start as young as Kindergarten and last through elementary and high school. Long term solutions to the retention problem can start when nursing associations and university departments need to reach out to local school districts by offering help ...

The Canadian standards and guidelines for career development practitioners states that Career Development is a gradual process throughout one’s life and it involves the management of learning, work, leisure, and change over, so as to reach at an individually determined place and develop a future of one’s preference. Traditional career development was purely an individual employee’s own initiative to further his career. However, as organizations’ vouch for employee retention as a means of rising productivity and reducing costs, organizations have taken an active role in helping their employees’ careers to progress through career development programs. According to Baldwin ( ...

Introduction

Career development is a continuous process through which an individual seeks, obtains, and processes information related to both educational and occupational alternatives. Therefore, a career development plan is a document that outlines how one develops themselves in their existing role in terms of their career goals and success. This is a career development plan for a middle school guidance counselor who is responsible to assisting students achieve maximum potential in their social, academic, and personal endeavors (Dawis, 2005).

Literature Review

Counselors provide students with responsive services related to various matters including self-understanding, life planning, and decision making. Therefore, it is important that middle school guidance counselors ...

Careers should be managed wisely in order to achieve job satisfaction throughout an individual’s career (Inkson 2007). The following paper outlines job opportunities, training & skills, responsibilities and career progression in a sales and marketing job. It also draws upon the career development approaches of Levinson and Savickas in assessing issues to be considered during career progression and the usefulness of such approaches.

Sales and marketing job opportunities can be found in industries that deal with services or goods. Currently, manufacturing firms have realized the need to become market- oriented with an aim of handling the rising competition between ...

Counseling is a method of that allows change or choice to reduce uncertainty but it does not necessitate the directing or giving of advice to a client to take a certain course of action. Counseling happens when a psychotherapist counsels a patient in a confidential and private setting to investigate, loss of a purpose and direction, a problem the patient has or distress they may perhaps be experiencing or their frustration with life. Counselors’ do not exploit or judge their patients in any particular way. Nevertheless, counseling is all the time done at the request of the patient as no individual may appropriately be compelled to go ...

Reflection Paper

Throughout my life, there have been many factors and influences that have led me to my current career choices; my personality has been shaped in such a way as to provide me with unique skills and interests suited for that career. In terms of career development, there are several theories that can help me link my personality to my aspirations in career counseling. In this reflection paper, several career development theories are used to evaluate my life and personality to the end of determining my suitability for the field of career counseling.

Donald's Super's theory of career development describes a 'life ...