THEORY QUESTION: What theory or theories will guide your work with this client?

THEORY QUESTION: What theory or theories will guide your work with this client?

THEORY QUESTION: What theory or theories will guide your work with this client?

ASSESSMENT QUESTION: How would you use formal and/or informal assessments to help this client identify majors and occupations to consider? 

HELPING QUESTION: How would you use helping skills with this client? 

JOB SEARCH QUESTION: The client wants to work part-time to gain confidence and to understand the labor market. Describe how you would help this client explore part-time job possibilities.

THEORY QUESTION: What theory or theories will guide your work with this client?

ASSESSMENT QUESTION: How would you use formal and/or informal assessments to help this client identify majors and occupations to consider? 

HELPING QUESTION: How would you use helping skills with this client? 

JOB SEARCH QUESTION: The client wants to work part-time to gain confidence and to understand the labor market. Describe how you would help this client explore part-time job possibilities.

THEORY QUESTION: What theory or theories will guide your work with this client?

ASSESSMENT QUESTION: How would you use formal and/or informal assessments to help this client identify occupations to consider? 

HELPING QUESTION: How would you use helping skills with this client?

JOB SEARCH QUESTION: The client shares that he wants to apply for a new job. Describe how you would help this client explore new job possibilities.

Personal / Self Understanding

• Holland Code/ Job Interest assessments: check if she is interested in Enterprising/ Artistic / Social

• Learning Style VARK Assessment: Check if she learn better with Kinesthetic & Audio style

• Indigo Assessment - Motivators: to see what fuels her passion and why see

• Indigo Assessment - DISC: Check if High I, Low S, Low C (why she cannot finish what she started)

• MIPQ Assessment: check what is her natural streghts

• VIA Strengths Assessment: to see top strengths

Study Competency:

• Standardized Assessments: IELTS, GPA, SAT, Vietnamese University Enrollment Assessments (?), ...

Analysis:

• 3 years HS graduated => No Major

• family want IT => She wants creative

• Persuasive skill

• Older => Migrate to Australia (qualify for sponsorship)

• Thinking:

  • Self: Biggest problem - Lack of motivation

  • Family: Lazy => Self: think the same (Negative self-thoughts)

Question 1: Theory

• Self:

  • Career Interests => to re-check what her career dream (The Vocational Choice Theory (Holland))

  • Strengths => Identify real strengths (Strengths-based Approach)

  • Self-Concept => to see the perceptions (Career Development Theory of Donald E. Super)

    • Think about self

    • Others think her

    • What she wants others to see

  • Learning ability => The impact on heredity, environment, & learning exp on career choice or development (Learning Theory (Krumboltz))

  • Transition to Australia => Schlossberg’s 4-S Transition Theory

    • Situation - a transition is triggered by a situation

    • Self - the individual copes with transition using their strengths and experiences

    • Supports - the people and resources available to help deal with transitions

    • Strategy - a plan to get through and past the transition

Question 2: Assessment

1. Career Interests => to re-check what her career dream (The Vocational Choice Theory (Holland)) - Holland Code Assessment

   1. Introduce the assessment

   2. Client complete assessment

   3. Interfere her top Holland codes

   4. Link with world-of-work map

   5. Referencing ILO 199 jobs, O*net profiles, Your Career/Myfuture (Australia)

2. Strengths => Identify real Skills/DISC (Strengths-based Approach) - Indigo Assessment (Optional => If no use =>Logo/brand identity Structured Interview)

   1. Introduce the assessment

   2. Ask for using permission Indigo (Cost => optional)

   3. No Indigo => logo/brand identity

   4. Client complete assessment

   5. Interfere Indigo/structured interview

3. Self-Concept => to see the perceptions (Career Development Theory of Donald E. Super) => The Structured Interview

   1. Think about herself

   2. Others think her

   3. What she wants others to see

4. Learning ability => The impact on heredity, environment, & learning exp on career choice or development (Learning Theory (Krumboltz)) => MIPQ (Howard Gardner)

   1. Introduce the assessment

   2. Client complete assessment

   3. Interfere MIPQ

Helping skills:

• Attending Behavior -> build trust

• Active Listening: get to understand more about student's story -> build trust/understanding

• Reflective Questions: student's thoughts and feelings about potential career path, his parents' guidance towards his future, his self-reflection on the areas and possibilities to overcome, storytelling by his own words, etc.

• Set goals: give hope, set an achievable goal in short term

Holland

Super

Strength based approach

The Integrative Life Planning Theory of Sunny Hansen

Lifeline activity - Holland Codes:

1. Highlight key jobs and milestones in the career journey

2. Verify the Holland Codes results

3. Define if the career decisions are compatible with his Holland codes

Career rainbow:

1. Define the stage and role of the client

2. Identify the plan and effects of career decision

Motivated skills - Richard Knowdell:

1. Define the specific skill set and proportion of usage of the client

2. Identify if the client is using his motivated skills/ demotivated skills/ developing skills/ unnecessary skills in his career journey

System theory - Social learning theory and Krumboltz's decision making process:

1. Define the impact of the family on his career decisionc

2. Identify if the client is aware of this type of impact on his career decision

Attending skill and active listening skill: build rapport, build trust by showing CSP's empathy and respective attitude to the student and collect information.

Reflecting and Encouraging: to confirm information and motivate the student to share more information that is not filled out in the intake form.

Open questioning and content reflecting: to help student to explore his own interests, strengths, desires, opportunities, influences, life roles, pros and cons of his decision.

Traits & Factor Theory:

• Use of Holland’s theory to assess his career interest and personality, assumption about his leadership and interpersonal skills.

• Help the student explore more careers in the world where his leadership and interpersonal skills valuable and not bias by his parents' direction, such as sports management, coaching, or business roles involving teamwork and leadership.

Social Cognitive Theory:

• Re-evaluate his learning path and goals from his social cognitive perspective

Strength Based Approach:

• To motivate student

Beginning

1. In order to connect and have an overview of the client, we use Attending behaviors and Questioning skills like Logo activity - 1st priority/ Points of You card - 2nd priority

   
   

Information collection

1. In order to continue the connection with the client, verify the information from the intake form and identify the current client's issue among of Self-understanding, Job-understanding and How to reach the job, we use Attending behaviors, Questioning, Reflecting of content, Reflecting of feeling skills.

   
   

Align the objective

1. In order to focus on the objective of the counselling session, we use Attending behaviors, Questioning, Reflecting of content, Reflecting of feeling skills, Focus and Empathic Confrontation skills.

Action

1. In order to select the home assignment, we use Attending behaviors, Questioning, Focus skills.

   
   

Wrap-up

1. In order to wrap up the session, quickly check the quality of the session and schedule the next session, we use Attending behaviors and Questioning skills.

Formal assessment:

• Holland Interest Assessment: Find out his interests and strengths

• Indigo (optional)

Informal assessment:

• Checklists of interests, values, or abilities + Structured interview: reevaluate the assessment results

• Card sorts: explore more in career options.

GD1:

• Attending

  • Build rapport with client

  • Paint the client's background picture

• Listening:

  • Keep building the rapport

  • Collect more information

• Questioning:

  • Collect more information

• Reflecting:

  • Keep building the rapport

• Encouraging:

  • Build rapport with client

GD2:

• Build rapport with client

Reflecting:

Traits & Factor Theory - Holland