Three choices of theories to pick from: Trait-and-Factor, Developmental, and Social Cognitive.
You have explored seven diverse clients in the Riverbend City Career Counseling scenarios media piece designed to enhance your cultural competence and ability to work with a variety of life situations. For this assignment, you may select from the following clients: Juan, Vaughn, Crystal, Scott, or Sarah. Using the Career Counseling Theory Case Study Template [DOCX] Download Career Counseling Theory Case Study Template [DOCX], select your client and a career counseling theory to support your client. In your paper, address the following:
Identify and describe the key components of your selected theory.
Provide a rationale as to why you have selected this career theory based on your client’s characteristics by analyzing the client’s interrelationships among and between work, mental well-being, and other life roles and factors.
Using scholarly research findings, provide evidence for the use of this theory with your client based on their multicultural identity.
Identify a small-scale and a large-scale strategy for supporting your client’s career and/or educational development or employment opportunities.
An example of a small-scale strategy for supporting your client’s career development is referring them to a support group at the local community college for single mothers.
An example of a large-scale strategy is to advocate for universal childcare for working parents.
Assignment Requirements
Your paper should meet the following requirements:
Written communication: Written communication is free of grammar, spelling, and format errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting guidelines. You may reference the Capella Writing Center: Evidence and APA.
Length of paper: 4–5 typed, double-spaced pages of content, in addition to the references page.
About one page for the theory description.
About one to two pages for the rationale.
About one page for the analysis and justification of the theory based on the client’s multicultural identity.
About one page for advocacy strategies.
References: A minimum of three scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
Competencies Measured
By successfully completing this assignment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies and rubric criteria:
Competency 1: Apply relevant theory and research findings to inform the practice of career counseling, development, and consulting across the life span.
Describes the key components of a career counseling theory.
Analyzes the interrelationships pertaining to work, mental well-being, family, and other life roles and factors.
Competency 3: Analyze legal, ethical, and multicultural issues related to the career development process.
Analyzes research findings related to the use of a chosen career counseling theory to a diverse client.
Analyzes the diversity aspects of the chosen strategies to advocate on behalf of a client’s career and educational development.
Competency 5: Communicate in a manner that is scholarly, respectful of the diversity, dignity, and integrity of others and consistent with the codes of ethics guiding members of the counseling profession.
Conveys purpose, in an appropriate tone and style, incorporating supporting evidence and adhering to organizational, professional, and scholarly writing standards.
Case Study:
Vaughn
Meet The Client
Vaughn is a 23-year-old Native American man of the Sioux tribe. He is a respected member and is eager to work on improving conditions on a reservation not far from Riverbend City. He is single. He attended a community college and holds an associate’s degree.
Diverse Populations
Vaughn begins his session describing an issue that happened to him at his last job. While attending community college, he worked as a server in a restaurant near campus. When the restaurant hired a new manager, the manager directed Vaughn to get a haircut. He wore his hair in the traditional style of his tribe. In order to keep his job, Vaughn cut his hair. As Vaughn reflected on his experience, he expressed disappointment in himself for being so agreeable to the manager’s demands. He also shared anger about his manager’s demands. As Vaughn continued to share, he described the challenge of the lack of jobs on the reservation, but that the jobs off the reservation do not understand his culture.
Assessment
Assessment Results
Holland Interest Codes
Artistic (A)
Social (S)
Investigative (I)
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
ESFJ
Big 5 Personality
High in Openness
Med-High in Conscientiousness
High in Extraversion
High in Agreeableness
Med to High in Neuroticism
Values Card Sort
Moral Values
Help Others and Society
Work with Others
Supervision
Responsibility
Education Level
Job Zone 3
Medium Preparation
Adult Issues
Vaughn expresses feeling like he is just “floating through life.” He has held a number of part-time jobs since he was a teenager. Currently, he is working two part-time jobs, but feels the urgency to locate full-time employment to receive benefits. Vaughn reiterates his desire to improve the quality of life for the members of his tribe. When pressed, Vaughn cannot describe what his desire looks like in action. Vaughn admits that he feels some anxiety when thinking about the future because he does not want to make the wrong choice.
Strategy and Intervention
Vaughn explains his struggle with a decision regarding whether or not to continue seeking his bachelor’s degree. This could potentially open more opportunities for employment on the reservation. However, he will have to move several hours away to attend a university. Vaughn explains that he is the youngest person to be elected as a tribal council representative, and the move would make it difficult for him to fulfill his leadership responsibilities. He further explains that this leadership role brings him joy and he represents the third generation of his family to serve as tribal council representative.
Conclusion
Vaughn described running into a friend from one of his community college courses. His friend was taking courses from an online university for her bachelor’s degree. Vaughn completed some research independently and identified several universities of interest to him. He has applied for a full-time position at the school on the reservation as a paraprofessional. While Vaughn is not certain he wants to obtain a degree in education, he is excited to have regular work hours and health insurance.
