Career Counselors' Perceptions of the Severity of Career Decision-Making Difficulties

Gati, Itamar; Amir, Tamar; Tal, Shiri

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“…Treatment priority also depends on the source of the difficulties and on the client's stage in the decision-making process (Gati, Amir, & Tal, 2008;Saka et al, 2008). Furthermore, in many cases, the career decision-making difficulties interact with and affect each other (e.g., lack of information about self may decrease motivation to engage in the career decision-making process); hence, the counseling intervention can target several difficulties simultaneously.…”

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“…However, counselors need to be aware that the degree of salience of the career decision-making difficulties in a particular category does not necessarily imply urgency, severity, or treatment priority; although salient difficulties may sometimes require higher priority in the counselor's attention and more intensive intervention. Treatment priority also depends on the source of the difficulties and on the client's stage in the decision-making process (Gati, Amir, & Tal, 2008;Saka et al, 2008). Furthermore, in many cases, the career decision-making difficulties interact with and affect each other (e.g., lack of information about self may decrease motivation to engage in the career decision-making process); hence, the counseling intervention can target several difficulties simultaneously.…”

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Applying a Systemic Procedure to Locate Career Decision‐Making Difficulties

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Amir

2010

The Career Development Quart

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Locating clients' career decision‐making difficulties is one of the first steps in career counseling. The authors demonstrate the feasibility and utility of a systematic 4‐stage procedure for locating and interpreting career decision‐making difficulties by analyzing responses of 626 college students (collected by Tai, 2007) to the Career Decision‐making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ; Gati, Krausz, & Osipow, 1996). In addition, the responses of 2 students selected from this group are individually analyzed and interpreted. The procedure makes it possible to map the various career decision‐making difficulties of undergraduate students and tailor the appropriate career counseling intervention to the unique needs of clients.

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Applying a Systemic Procedure to Locate Career Decision‐Making Difficulties

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Amir

2010

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“…First, eliciting career counselors' perceptions is important because counselors can guide their clients to adopt the use of effective coping strategies and avoid those that are not. Second, expert knowledge is relevant because it can be used for designing, improving, and interpreting assessments and interventions (Gati, Amir, & Landman, 2010). Furthermore, assuming that career counselors are experts, their judgments can serve as the criteria to which the young adults' judgments could be compared.…”

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The Effectiveness of Strategies for Coping With Career Indecision

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Tatar

Gati

2016

Journal of Career Development

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The present research investigated which strategies Israeli young adults ( N = 254) use to cope with their career indecision and the perceived effectiveness of these strategies. Their perceptions of the effectiveness of coping strategies were compared to the respective judgments of career counselors ( N = 36). The similarity between the young adults’ and the career counselors’ perceptions ( r = .98) suggests that young adults have a fairly accurate judgment of the effectiveness of various coping strategies. However, career counselors perceived emotional help-seeking as a more effective strategy and helplessness and submission as less effective strategies than did young adults (| d| > 0.89). The results also show that Productive coping strategies, although perceived as effective by the young adults, were actually used less by them, whereas Nonproductive coping strategies, although perceived as ineffective, were used more. The counseling implications of the finding that the Nonproductive coping strategies but not the productive ones predict career decision-making difficulties are discussed.

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“…Career counselors consider these difficulties to be more severe than information-related difficulties (Gati, Amir, & Landman, 2010) because they may prevent the individual from making a conclusive decision or require long-term intervention that may exceed the scope of career counseling .…”

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Emotional and Personality-Related Career Decision-Making Difficulties

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Asulin-Peretz

Fisher

2011

The Counseling Psychologist

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This study tests the temporal stability and the concurrent and predictive validity of the Emotional and Personality-related Career decision-making Difficulties (EPCD) model and questionnaire. Five hundred forty-three participants filled out the EPCD twice, 3 years apart. The Anxiety cluster was the most stable of the three, followed by the Self-Concept and Identity cluster, and then the Pessimistic Views cluster, which showed a significant decrease. Participants who reported having made a career decision by the second administration had lower EPCD scores at Time 1 than did those who remained undecided at Time 2. Whereas the decided group showed a decrease in the EPCD scores during the 3-year interval, the undecided group showed no significant decrease. Significant correlations were observed between the EPCD scores and low satisfaction with one's chosen occupation. Gender differences were also found: among the decided group, women had higher EPCD scores than did men; overall, women had higher EPCD scores than did men only in the clusters of Anxiety and Self-Concept and Identity.

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Career Counselors' Perceptions of the Severity of Career Decision-Making Difficulties

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Applying a Systemic Procedure to Locate Career Decision‐Making Difficulties

Applying a Systemic Procedure to Locate Career Decision‐Making Difficulties

The Effectiveness of Strategies for Coping With Career Indecision

Emotional and Personality-Related Career Decision-Making Difficulties

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