While reading chapter 5,
there were some topics that I found to be really interesting. One of the topics
was the social cognitive perspective on careers. I found the central prospective
of social cognitive theory very relevant and true. For example, I believe that
the interaction between people and their environments are very influential.
When I was considering going to Arkansas State, the environment had a big
impact on why I chose to go there as a freshman in college. Everyone was so
nice and genuine and seemed like they really wanted me to be there (the upper
class-man soccer girls that I was staying with). It made it such a better
environment then going somewhere where they could have cared less if you came
to their school or not. The environment had a huge impact on my decision.
Although this did not have much of an impact on my career, this is where my
career had started and I do not think I would be where I am today in my career
if I had not gone there my freshman year of college.
Another thing that I found really interesting in chapter
5 was the case of L. In the beginning of case L, I kept thinking, what does SHE
want? Why is she talking about what her dad wants, what her philosophy
professor says, or what the girl on her floor says? I kept thinking, what is it
that she wants. She kept talking about what everyone else was suggesting to her
but she never said how she felt about it. It wasn't surprising to see that she
went to the career development counselor looking for them to give her a set
answer on what she should do. After learning in my Counseling and Theory I
class that most student's come to you looking for you to tell them what to do,
this was not surprising to me. It was really cool however to see how the career
counselor reacted and responded in this situation. The counselor did not tell
her what to do, but instead, asked her questions that would help her figure it
out herself.
As I have mentioned before, I really like reading the
articles that are assigned and that tie in to what we are learning about. The
article this week was comparing the objective and subjective experience. I
enjoyed reading the case study because it gave me a good example of how they
used it and it also brought some questions to mind and really got me thinking.
The case study illustrates how one counselor sought to foster a student's
career development by helping her articulate a life theme that made explicit
the pattern of her unfolding life, portrayed a clear and stable identity, and
gave her a voice to her identity and ambitions for the future (Savickas, 1995).
The three categories that the counselor asked her to talk about were family
stories, identity stories and relating indecision to life theme. One question
that came to mind while I was reading the case study was how did sharing the
stories from her childhood have anything to do with her career development? How
did something that happen when she was 3-6 years old, affect her choice in
career? It was interesting to see how everything tied together in the end and
that is what I like about this is that everything somehow relates to the
other.
Brown, D. (2016). Career Information, Career Counseling, and
Career Development (11th ed.). New York: Pearson.
Savickas, M.L. (1995)
Constructivist counseling for career indecision. Career Development Quarterly, 43(1), 363-373
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