Application Assignment: Career Development Plan
In this Application assignment, you will demonstrate strategies for facilitating client skill development for career, educational, and life-work planning and management.
To prepare for this assignment:
• Review Chapter 8 of the course text, focusing on career development planning.
• Review Figler and Bolles' list of 12 key skills of the career counseling (p. 239-240).
• Review the case study of Darren (Niles, Goodman, & Pope, 2002).
• Think about how you would complete this vocational/career development plan.
• Consider other steps you might take or things you might add to a vocational/career development plan for Darren.
The assignment: (1-2 pages)
• Using the Hill and O'Brien (1999) Helping Skills Model Model (embedded in the course resource "Darren - The Case of the Unemployed Runaway") describe the strategies/interventions that you would employ to support a client's life work plan.
o Develop a client to use for this Application Assignment. Consider using the client you developed for the Application Assignment; do NOT use "Darren" from the resources
o Briefly describe your client's presenting problem.
o What activities would you engage in for Stage One? (Exploration, pp. 231-232). What techniques would you use to develop rapport, express empathy, and encourage your client to "tell his story?"
o For the second stage, Insight (p. 232). What areas would you focus on to gain deeper meaning and understanding of your client's situation? How would you identify his strengths and weaknesses? What interpretations would you offer your client?
o During the action stage (p. 232), what plans would you develop, how would you evaluate them, and what follow-up activity would you do with your client?
o Include anything else that you would like to add to further develop the plan.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
Required Resources
• Capuzzi, D., & Stauffer, M. D. (2012). Career counseling: Foundations, perspectives, and applications. (2nd ed.). Boston, MA: Pearson Education.
• Chapter 8 "Designing Career Development Plans With Clients'"
• Chapter 9, "Establishing a Thriving Career Development Program"
• Article: Niles, S. G., Goodman, J., & Pope, M. (2001). The career counseling casebook: A resource for students, practitioners, and counselor educators (pp. 231-235). Broken Arrow, OK: National Career Development Association. Used by permission of The National Career Development Association.
o "Darren: The Case of the Unemployed Runaway "
Media
• Video: Laureate Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2007). Vocational psychology and counseling: Career development planning. Baltimore: Author.
o with Dr. Darrell Luzzo
Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 21 minutes.
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Website
• National Career Development Association. (2015). Internet sites for career planning.