Section 5-B: Entry-Level Specialized Practice Areas, Career Counseling

All entry-level students are enrolled in at least one specialized practice area. Students are expected to develop and demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to address a wide range of issues in their specialized practice area in consideration of culturally sustaining practices across service delivery modalities. Counselor education programs must document where and in what manner each of the numbered standards listed for that specialized practice area is covered in the curriculum. The standards may be addressed in the foundational curriculum or in experiences specifically designed for each specialized practice area.

B. CAREER COUNSELING

factors that affect clients’ attitudes toward work and their career decision-making processes
the unique needs and characteristics of diverse clients with regard to career exploration, employment expectations, and socioeconomic issues
implications of gender roles and responsibilities for employment, education, family, and leisure
impact of globalization on careers and the workplace
education, training, employment trends, and labor market information and resources that provide information about job tasks, functions, salaries, requirements, and future outlooks related to broad occupational fields and individual occupations
approaches and resources relevant to diverse clients acquiring a set of career planning, employability, job search, job creation, and life-work role transition skills
strategies to assist clients in the appropriate use of technology for career information and planning
strategies to market and promote career counseling resources and services

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