Gender- and Family-Conscious Career Counseling

To prepare for this assignment:

• Review the week’s Learning Resources. Focus on the case examples of Maria and Richard, on pp. 515–517.
• Think about the similarities and differences in the daily lives of Maria and Richard and the role that gender expectations, bias, and discrimination, as well as the role that family life, may play in each scenario.
• Reflect on how a counselor might engage in a holistic approach to career counseling with Maria and Richard using one of the following holistic approaches: Self-Efficacy Beliefs (p. 92), Learned Optimism (pp. 93–94), Planned Happenstance (pp. 94-95), or Positive Uncertainty (pp. 96–99). Consider how a counselor would honor each individual’s unique needs while also being conscious of how expectations, bias, and/or discrimination related to gender and family life may influence them.

Readings

• Course Text: Career Counseling
• • Chapter 16, “Career Counseling with Couples and Families”
  • Chapter 17, “Gender Issues in Career Counseling”

The assignment: (1–2 pages)

• Explain how you would work with Maria and Richard using one of the following holistic approaches: Self-Efficacy Beliefs (p. 92), Learned Optimism (pp. 93–94), Planned Happenstance (pp. 94–95), or Positive Uncertainty (pp. 96–99).
• Analyze each case (Maria’s and Richard’s) in terms of the influence of gender and family life on their career decisions and development.

Support your Application assignment with specific references to all resources used in its preparation. You are asked to provide a reference list only for those resources not included in the Learning Resources for this course.