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Essay Instructions: I. Brief discussion about evolution of career counseling as it pertains to societal needs in this day and age.

II. Based on research, discuss current apathy of professional counseling students to embrace "career counseling" in their counselor education programs (both masters and doctoral)

III. Discuss importance or great need for professional counselors to do career counseling in today's market

IV. (BULK OF PAPER) Based on research...discuss how instilling hope in the client that he or she can find a successful career is crucial to the client making changes

V. Identify implications for professional counselors and how they can instill hope through currently research interventions or techniques.

References...look for authors such as Mark Savickas, John Carlson, etc

Essay Instructions: "Select a current topic that deals with a career counseling issue and prepare a 4-5 page paper (double spaced, APA format). The first part of the paper will be a summary of the issue. In the second part of the paper, you will discuss the application of counseling strategies, techniques, and/or interventions for the issue. Be sure to include a list of reference sources."

The topic I would like the paper on is:
Attachment Theory and Career Development.

It would also be great if you could mostly use professional journals as resources.

Essay Instructions: The National Career Development Association (NCDA) web site has a variety of resources for career counselors. Go to the NCDA web site:

http://www.ncda.org/

On the left-side of the web page, click on the button for Career Convergence. Career Convergence is a professional magazine that focuses on career counseling practice. The latest issue will come up on the screen. Select one of the articles from the latest issue or search the Career Convergence Archives [left side of screen] for an article on techniques and strategies for career counseling. For the article you select, type a position paper (double-spaced, maximum of two pages [approximately 1 page summary of the article and 1 page explanation of how as a counselor you would or would not use the information in the article]).

Any article will be fine.

Essay Instructions: This paper needs to be about an article from a peer reviewed journal. Be able to answer the following about the Journal article review on Career Counseling & job satisfaction.
A. what key counseling theory/career development concepts are studied?
B. from what theoretical perspective is the research conducted?
C. What type of research is this? (quantitative, qualitative, survey, field study, etc.)
D. What are the independent and dependent variables?
E. Was the research casual or correlative?
F. What major conclusions did the author(s) draw from the study?
G. What are the limitation of the study?
H. What are some recommendations for further research?