Question 1

A postmodern perspective focuses on how people ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  engage in self-assessment
B)  choose jobs
C)  construct meaning about their careers
D)  narrow their career choices

Question 2

The process of self-construction views individuals as first actors, then agents, and finally ______ of their own lives and careers.

Accepted Answer

A)  authors
B)  advocates
C)  architects
D)  adaptors

Question 3

As a college student, Danielle is thinking about her future, talking with her advisor about what she might do after she graduates, and looking up graduate school admissions requirements.Which of the "four Cs," described by Savickas, best characterizes Danielle's behavior?

Accepted Answer

A)  career concern
B)  career control
C)  career curiosity
D)  career confidence A

Question 4

Societal changes in the way work is structured prompted Savickas to argue that career should be conceptualized as a ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  life path
B)  ladder
C)  story
D)  collage

Question 5

Which initial question best reflects Savickas's approach?

Accepted Answer

A)  How will you know if we are successful in working together?
B)  Where do you picture yourself in 5 years? 10 years?
C)  How can I be useful to you as you construct your career?
D)  What do you want to be written on your tombstone?

Question 6

Why might a counselor employ "healing narratives?"

Accepted Answer

A)  If the client's background includes emotional or physical abuse.
B)  If the client has constructed hurtful stories about himself or herself that get in the way of reconstruction.
C)  If the client constructs hurtful stories about others that detract from the client's own stories.
D)  The counselor would never employ "healing narratives." Only the client can do that. B

Question 7

The emerging theory that explains the processes through which individuals "construct themselves, impose direction on their vocational behavior, and make meaning of their careers" is ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  counseling for work and relationships
B)  career adaptability
C)  career construction theory and the life design paradigm
D)  psychology of working

Question 8

Which of the following is NOT one of the four dimensions of career adaptability?

Accepted Answer

A)  concern
B)  curiosity
C)  coherence
D)  control C

Question 9

In order to generate a client's life portrait, counselors need to have "narrative competence" attained by practicing which three skills?

Accepted Answer

A)  understanding the story, elaborating the meaning, addressing inconsistencies
B)  entering the story, identifying subplots, addressing inconsistencies
C)  understanding the story, fleshing out characters, identifying subplots
D)  entering the story, understanding the story, elaborating the meaning

Question 10

______ is to Super as ______ is to Savickas.

Accepted Answer

A)  Career concern; career development
B)  Career development; career concern
C)  Career adaptability; career maturity
D)  Career maturity; career adaptability

Question 11

A counselor is using Savickas's five-question Career Construction Interview with Isaiah.Which question would not likely be included?

Accepted Answer

A)  "Whom did you admire when you were about age 6?"
B)  "What are your favorite television shows or movies?"
C)  "What motto or favorite saying seems like good advice to you?"
D)  "Where do you dream of retiring?"

Question 12

In Savickas's conceptualization, vocational guidance is to ______ as career counseling is to ______.

Accepted Answer

A)  focus on scores and traits; matching and occupational fit
B)  focus on stories and themes; focus on stages and tasks
C)  focus on scores and traits; focus on stories and themes
D)  focus on stages and tasks; focus on readiness and vocational development

Question 13

Savickas identifies three phases of counseling.Briefly describe those stages, highlighting the counselor's role or focus in each.

Accepted Answer

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The process of self-construction views individuals as first actors, then agents, and finally ______ of their own lives and careers.

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As a college student, Danielle is thinking about her future, talking with her advisor about what she might do after she graduates, and looking up graduate school admissions requirements.Which of the "four Cs," described by Savickas, best characterizes Danielle's behavior?

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Societal changes in the way work is structured prompted Savickas to argue that career should be conceptualized as a ______.

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Which initial question best reflects Savickas's approach?

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Why might a counselor employ "healing narratives?"

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The emerging theory that explains the processes through which individuals "construct themselves, impose direction on their vocational behavior, and make meaning of their careers" is ______.

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Which of the following is NOT one of the four dimensions of career adaptability?

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In order to generate a client's life portrait, counselors need to have "narrative competence" attained by practicing which three skills?

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A counselor is using Savickas's five-question Career Construction Interview with Isaiah.Which question would not likely be included?

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In Savickas's conceptualization, vocational guidance is to as career counseling is to .

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Savickas identifies three phases of counseling.Briefly describe those stages, highlighting the counselor's role or focus in each.

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The process of self-construction views individuals as first actors, then agents, and finally ______ of their own lives and careers.

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As a college student, Danielle is thinking about her future, talking with her advisor about what she might do after she graduates, and looking up graduate school admissions requirements.Which of the "four Cs," described by Savickas, best characterizes Danielle's behavior?

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Societal changes in the way work is structured prompted Savickas to argue that career should be conceptualized as a ______.

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Which initial question best reflects Savickas's approach?

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The emerging theory that explains the processes through which individuals "construct themselves, impose direction on their vocational behavior, and make meaning of their careers" is ______.

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Which of the following is NOT one of the four dimensions of career adaptability?

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In order to generate a client's life portrait, counselors need to have "narrative competence" attained by practicing which three skills?

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______ is to Super as ______ is to Savickas.

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A counselor is using Savickas's five-question Career Construction Interview with Isaiah.Which question would not likely be included?

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In Savickas's conceptualization, vocational guidance is to ______ as career counseling is to ______.

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