What are your personal results after taking the Career Decision Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ)? Note: Once you are at the CDDQ launch page, you can opt to take either the CDDQ or the CDDC (Coping with Career Decision-Making Difficulties).

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Overview

This scavenger hunt comprises two primary sections. In the first section, resources available through the National Career Development Association (NCDA) are explored through a question and answer scavenger hunt. The intent is to familiarize students with the various NCDA resources available. The purpose of Part II of this assignment is to learn how to use the Occupational Outlook Handbook to gather relevant labor market information that would be commonly solicited from career counseling clients. The Occupational Outlook Handbook, available online through the Department of Labor (bls.gov/ooh/), is a comprehensive source of career information that is often used by career counselors. The OOH, which is updated every 2 years, provides detailed information on hundreds of careers.

Instructions

Part I: NCDA Scavenger Hunt

You will find the answers to 8 questions by searching the NCDA website. If you have difficulty in navigating around a website, ask your classmates for help.

**Answer these questions using complete sentences.

Directions: Go to the NCDA website (ncda.org) and find the answers to the following questions:

  1. What is the relationship of the NCDA to the American Counseling Association?
  2. What is the purpose of the NCDA?
  3. What are your personal results after taking the Career Decision Making Difficulties Questionnaire (CDDQ)? Note: Once you are at the CDDQ launch page, you can opt to take either the CDDQ or the CDDC (Coping with Career Decision-Making Difficulties).
  4. What is the purpose of the Motivational Assessment of Personal Potential (MAPP)?
  5. Find the website that will take you to the Occupation Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Find the Occupational employment projections to 2022 link. What are the anticipated fastest growing fields?
  6. What is the purpose of America’s CareerInfoNet?
  7. According to CareerInfoNet, what are the top five fastest growing occupations for persons with a bachelor’s degree? (Hint: Start with the Occupation Information links)
  8. Using salary.com (NCDA has a link), what is the base salary range for a licensed professional counselor in Baton Rouge, Louisiana?

Part II: Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) Scavenger Hunt

You will use the Occupational Outlook Handbook, available online through the Department of Labor (bls.gov/ooh) information to answer questions from the 5 scenarios presented below.

Use the information from the OOH to find the answers presented in the following scenarios:

**Answer these questions using complete sentences. Provide justification for your answer when requested.

Scenario 1: A client, who has recently lost his job as an automobile dealer, is interested in exploring other career opportunities and has narrowed his search to those found below. Specifically, he is interested in a job that “pays well.” Which of the following occupations would you recommend and why?

  • Investment Banker
  • Mortgage Broker
  • Airline Pilot
  • Dermatologist
  • Electrical Engineer

Scenario 2: A client who is just starting college is interested in exploring career opportunities that will best ensure finding a job after graduation. Specifically, she has narrowed her choices to 1 of the following careers. What are the employment outlooks for each of these occupations?

  • Counselor
  • Photographer
  • Occupational Therapist
  • Childcare Worker

Scenario 3: A client who is just graduating from high school is looking for a career that will provide the most flexibility in a work schedule. Specifically, your client has narrowed his choices to 1 of the following. Which offers the highest possibility of a flexible work schedule?

  • Registered Nurse
  • Tour Guide
  • Private detective
  • Bank teller

Scenario 4: A client who has been a trucker for 15 years and has recently suffered a back injury is interested in finding a career that requires little physical risk. He has narrowed his interest to 1 the following. Which career requires the least physical risk?

  • Motorcycle repair technician
  • Chef
  • Landscaper
  • Security Guard

Scenario 5: A client who is a skilled artist and has an Associate’s degree from the local community college, is interested in becoming a medical illustrator. He wants to know the following:

  • Does he need any more education or training?
  • What is the average income of a medical illustrator?

Record your answers to these questions on a separate document and submit through the link in Blackboard.

What if you are looking at Adam rather than Abigail? Would support (versus mixed) for Adam get different ratings compared to support (versus mixed) for Abigail?

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This is one of the most important parts of this course – I want you to work with your group to design a follow-up study using conformity / consensus. As you work on this discussion, try to think about what other variable might influence participant impressions. Let me give you a few example, though try to get creative with your group. Look at prior research and see if you can use some of their work as a follow-up to your study. Have fun with it!

  • First, you can alter the gender of the Facebook user. What if you are looking at Adam rather than Abigail? Would support (versus mixed) for Adam get different ratings compared to support (versus mixed) for Abigail? (Note that we would have FOUR conditions in this design: Adam Support vs. Adam Mixed vs. Abigail Support vs. Abigail Mixed).
  • Second, source credibility is a good topic to explore. Have some participants in the support condition and others in the mixed condition. Then, some participants are told the cheater user is a high-school student (which might imply youth and inexperience) while others are told the cheater is a college student (which might imply age and wisdom).
  • Finally, you can look at some participant characteristics if you like. You can measure the participants’ belief that cheating is okay or even ask if they have cheated themselves (if yes, they might be more forgiving of Abigail than if no).

In this discussion, I want EACH of you to do three things.

First, tell me which study you want to do (that is, which second independent variable you find most interesting).

Second, give me a reference in APA format for one peer reviewed research article that has something to do with this second variable. This article does not have to involve conformity / consensus at all, but it must have something to do with your second independent variable.

Third, give me a hypothesis for what you expect to occur if your new independent variable is chosen for the class project.

In at least 250 words total, please answer each of the following, drawing upon your reading materials and your personal insight:

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our reading this week, we learned more about some of the philosophers’ perspectives on how to cultivate that fertile ground for engaging in meaningful friendships. Many philosophers seem to agree that friendship is not about being knowledgeable or following a specific prescription for being a true friend. Vernon’s summary of Socrates’ position entails the following:

Then the individuals have the opportunity not only to learn about the limitations of the beliefs that they hold true but also about the flaws in their character and the vulnerabilities of their temperaments. These are, after all, far deeper sources of delusion than mere rational confusion (p. 255).

In a similar vein, Vernon interprets soul friendship in the light of John Keats “negative capability” as the “ability to live life without certainty, but with an expectant open-heartedness” (p. 254).

In at least 250 words total, please answer each of the following, drawing upon your reading materials and your personal insight:

  • In your own understanding of the ethics of friendship, to what extent do you personally value the ability to learn about the limitations of your beliefs, the flaws in your character, and the vulnerabilities in your temperament? Do you consider this an obligation of the friend? What is your own understanding of the “ability to live life without certainty, but with an expectant open-heartedness” in terms of friendship and do you concur that it is the ethical approach to cultivating true friendship? If not, based on what you learned in this course, what is?

 

Evaluation Criteria

Your initial post should be at least 250 words and must substantively integrate the assigned readings from the module with proper APA style formatting.

• Provide a reflection about how you think addressing this problem with prevention could promote social change in your colleagues’ communities

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Please no plagiarism and make sure you are able to access all resources on your own before you bid. You need to have scholarly support for any claim of fact or recommendation regarding treatment. APA format also requires headings. Use the prompt each week to guide your heading titles and organize the content of your initial post under the appropriate headings. Remember to use scholarly research from peer-reviewed articles that is current. Please follow the instructions to get full credit for the discussion. I need this completed by 06/20/20 at 5pm. Each classmate’s document is attached.

Read your classmates’ postings. Respond to your classmates’ postings.

Respond in one or more of the following ways:

• Describe one way that prevention would impact this problem differently than treatment

• Provide a reflection about how you think addressing this problem with prevention could promote social change in your colleagues’ communities

• Ask a question for clarification

• Return to this Discussion in a few days to read the responses to your initial posting. Note what you have learned and/or any insights that you have gained as a result of your colleagues’ comments.

1. Classmate (C. Bilzing)

2. Classmate (J. Shaw)

3. Classmate (K. McLean)

Required Resources

Swearer, S. M., & Hymel, S. (2015). Understanding the psychology of bullying: Moving toward a social-ecological diathesis–stress model. American Psychologist, 70(4), 344-353.

American Mental Wellness Association: Risk and Protective Factors. Retrieved from: https://www.americanmentalwellness.org/prevention/risk-and-protective-factors/

Required Media

Walden Scholars of Change (2015). Healing our minds, bodies, and families. [Video]. Baltimore, MD: Producer.

 

Note: The approximate length of this media piece is 2 minutes.

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