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A Career Awareness Program for High School Dropouts
Author(s) -
PALMO ARTIS J.,
BUECHLE PAUL,
OSSWALD HELENE
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
journal of employment counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.252
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 2161-1920
pISSN - 0022-0787
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1920.1980.tb01205.x
Subject(s) - vocational education , employability , psychology , medical education , career counseling , job placement , career education , cognitive information processing , career development , applied psychology , pedagogy , medicine
The Career Awareness Program for High School Dropouts was an experimentally funded project to determine the effect of a concentrated vocational assessment and vocational counseling program on the employability of high school dropouts. Various aspects of CAP included individual and group counseling, vocational‐educational assessment and diagnosis, job attitude training, vocational guidance, and career exploration. The results of a follow‐up survey showed that approximately 60% of the dropouts were still employed six months after completion of the program. In addition, the dropouts reported benefiting from the program through increased awareness of their own needs, abilities, and interests as well as through better awareness of the types of skills and behaviors desired by employers.