Week 1

• Examine the evolving nature of work and attitudes toward work.
• Explain the influence of work in people’s lives.
• Identify current, appropriate labor market information for your state.
• Analyze work roles in relationship to diversity and global perspectives that affect the perceptions and values of individuals.
• Evaluate your personal values regarding work and changing work roles in relationship to your counseling style.
• Describe approaches for assessing the conditions of the work environment on client’s life experiences.
• Describe the need for career development services.

Week 2

• Examine major theories of vocational development as a basis for career counseling.
• Identify common resources related to determining career choice and career development.
• Identify approaches for conceptualizing the interrelationships among and between work, mental well-being, relationships, and other life roles and factors.

Week 3

• Analyze the relevance of career and vocational education and counseling in relationship to the overall mental health and well-being of individuals.
• Examine the appropriate use of assessment measures for career planning and decision making in career counseling.
• Determine appropriate decision-making processes from various theoretical frameworks.
• Demonstrate theory-based career counseling skills to facilitate client development of career, educational, and life–work planning and management skills.

Week 4

• Describe the differences between vocational guidance and career counseling practices across the developmental stages of clients through the lifespan.
• Describe special considerations in the career counseling of children, adolescents, and adults.
• Describe career guidance programs in institutions of higher learning.
• Identify career development options for adults in transition.
• Explain the role of technology resources in career counseling.

Week 5

• Examine special issues related to career counseling for men, women, and families.
• Differentiate between the special needs associated with multicultural groups in regard to career development.
• Identify issues related to career counseling for clients with disabilities.
• Examine strategies for advocating for diverse clients’ career and educational development and employment opportunities in a global economy.
• Analyze the various legal issues related to fair employment practices and worker rights and responsibilities.
• Demonstrate strategies for career development program planning, organization, implementation, administration, and evaluation.

Week 6

• Determine the levels of career and vocational counseling when developing a comprehensive treatment plan.
• Demonstrate skills and techniques necessary to provide career and vocational counseling to clients in a variety of settings.
• Integrate career and vocational guidance processes into comprehensive professional counseling competencies appropriate as a treatment resource for a broad and diverse client base.
• Explain the importance of professional counselor identity and ethical standards for the practice of vocational guidance and career counseling interventions.