Description
Unit 10
- Reflections on Career Counseling
Introduction
In this unit you will reflect on the knowledge you have gained about career counseling. Most who are seeking licensure will take the National Counseling Exam (NCE) and/or the Praxis for school counseling. Both of these exams include career counseling and development theories and concepts. The quiz in this unit provides you an opportunity to demonstrate your mastery of the course competencies, as they may appear in these licensure exams. Reflections on Career Counseling
Objectives
To successfully complete this learning unit, you will be expected to:
- Create a personal statement that highlights education, knowledge, skills, and experiences.
- Review your peers’ CV or résumé and cover letter.
- Describe strategies for career development program planning, organization, implementation, administration, and evaluation.
- Reflect on the knowledge gained in this course.
Learning Activities
Unit 10 Study 1
Studies
Research
Use the Capella University Library to find two journal articles from your specialization that address areas related to program planning, organizing, administering, implementing, and evaluating a comprehensive career program. Reflections on Career Counseling
Resources
Use the Library.
Discussion 1: 1 page needed with minimum of 250 words and 2 references.
CV Update and Peer Review
In Unit 9 you wrote or updated your résumé or CV and cover letter, based on a position you chose from your career exploration work. For this discussion, post your completed documents early in the week so your peers have time to complete their reviews before Friday. Reflections on Career Counseling
Use the Resources provided to help guide you in providing a constructive peer review. If helpful, the Writing Feedback Tool can be used to direct your peers toward areas of their writing on which to focus their efforts.
Discussion 2: 1 page needed with minimum of 250 words and 2 references.
Comprehensive Career Program
For this discussion, provide an outline for a comprehensive career program which includes program planning, organizational needs, implementation, administrative needs, and criteria for evaluation Reflections on Career Counseling.
For example, if you are currently, or will be, a professional school counselor, describe how you would set up your comprehensive program. If you are a mental health counselor, imagine that you have several clients in need of this service so you are setting up a program to meet their needs. For any context, be sure to include the materials needed.
Discussion 3: 1 page needed with minimum of 250 words and 2 references.
Course Reflection
For your final discussion, explain to your peers and your instructor what you will be taking away from this course. In your post, answer the following questions:
- What did you learn that surprised you?
- What did you find challenging to understand or grasp?
- What aspects of the course did you enjoy? Which did you not enjoy?
- What would you like to see added to the course for future sessions?
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Discussion 2: Comprehensive Career Program in Reflections on Career Counseling
As an addiction counselor, setting up a success career counseling program includes integrating it within the existing addiction counseling set up. Addiction counseling is intertwined with career counseling because most addicts come with different career issues. Therefore, I will seek to integrate tenets of career counseling within my existing addiction counseling.
Discussion 3: Course Reflection
This has been one of the most interesting courses I have taken. It has been an insightful course that opened me to the real world of counseling because it touched on the issue of career counseling, which occur often when dealing with clients. From this course, learning about career issues was one of the most surprising things. This is because when dealing with clients, I have always observed that clients have issues related to their work but I did not consider it an issue that required my intervention.