Career Counseling: The Value of Term Paper

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When a client reports, during a counseling session, that he or she is unable to master a specific domain of behavior, the counselor should focus on the causes of these perceptions in the client's background experiences" and examine how a lack of skills and unsubstantiated perceptions of a lack of self-efficacy are holding the client back (Betz 2004:4). Using "The Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale...can be used to assess a person's beliefs concerning her or his capabilities to take the steps in career decision making" (Betz 2004:5).

Ideally, treating issues related to a lack of self-efficacy requires a two-pronged approach.
Firstly, the counselor must help the client unburden him or herself of specific concepts of a lack of self-efficacy related to career skills and goals -- but there also must be a more general component of raising the client's self-esteem and efficacy that is essential to fully realize the individual's maximum potential in the workforce. Of course, self-efficacy is often significantly related to vocational interest, but when the two do not mesh, it is essential that the counselor help them to do so, and ideally help persons explore unexpected areas of talent (Guidon & Richards 2005:16).

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