CED7143 Lifestyle and Career Development
An examination of various factors influencing career choice and career development over the lifespan, including individual, cultural, and sociological factors. Emphasis placed on approaches that aid conceptualization of healthy development in career planning and decision making. Addresses counseling strategies to address career struggles, including interrelationships between work, family, and life roles. Also includes use of career information systems, computer-based information systems, and vocational assessment instruments. The counselor’s role as an advocate for the professional is addressed. At the discretion of the professor, students may be required to pay a nominal fee for individual vocational assessments. This course is a part of the Richmont Career Mapping sequence.