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Applying Social Cognitive Career Theory to Training Career Counselors
Author(s) -
O'Brien Karen M.,
Heppner Mary J.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
the career development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.846
H-Index - 53
eISSN - 2161-0045
pISSN - 0889-4019
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-0045.1996.tb00452.x
Subject(s) - career counseling , social cognitive theory , cognitive information processing , counseling psychology , psychology , intervention (counseling) , applied psychology , career development , medical education , career portfolio , cognition , training (meteorology) , pedagogy , social psychology , medicine , neuroscience , psychiatry , physics , meteorology
This article applies the social cognitive career theory formulated by Lent, Brown, and Hackett (1994) to training career counselors. Specifically, the authors propose extending the theory to understand and influence trainees' interest, engagement, and performance in career counseling. An initial offering of an advanced career counseling seminar is described as an example of an intervention designed to increase interest and involvement in career counseling and to improve performance among career counselors. Suggestions are made for future research and for training students to be interested, involved, and skilled in providing career counseling.