Full Description
Deliberate practice exercises help trainees achieve competence in essential career counseling skills and apply them in a variety of contexts while honing their own personal style.
These exercises present role-playing scenarios in which two trainees act as a client and a counselor, switching back and forth under the guidance of a supervisor. The counselor improvises appropriate and authentic responses to client statements organized into three difficulty levels—beginner, intermediate, and advanced.
Each of the first 10 exercises focuses on a single skill, which include exploring your client's skills, values, decision-making styles, and cultural and family influences; setting goals; and providing feedback on career assessments and analyzing their underlying themes. Two comprehensive exercises follow in which trainees integrate these essential skills into a single session.
Step-by-step instructions guide participants through the exercises, identify criteria for mastering the skills, and explain how to monitor and adjust difficulty. Guidelines to help trainers and trainees get the most out of training are also provided.
Contents
Series Preface
Tony Rousmaniere and Alexandre Vaz
Acknowledgments
Part I. Overview and Instructions
Chapter 1. Introduction and Overview of Deliberate Practice and Career Counseling
Chapter 2. Instructions for the Career Counseling Deliberate Practice Exercises
Part II. Deliberate Practice Exercises for Career Counseling Skills
Exercises for Beginner Career Counseling Skills
Exercise 1. Exploring Your Client's Skills
Exercise 2. Exploring Your Client's Values
Exercise 3. Exploring Your Client's Decision-Making Styles
Exercises for Intermediate Career Counseling Skills
Exercise 4. Exploring Your Client's Cultural and Familial Influences
Exercise 5. Discussing the Benefits of Career Counseling
Exercise 6. Setting Session Goals
Exercises for Advanced Career Counseling Skills
Exercise 7. Feedback on Career Assessments
Exercise 8. Exploring Underlying Themes in Assessments
Exercise 9. Addressing Client Ambivalence and Skepticism
Exercise 10. Assigning Homework in Career Counseling
Comprehensive Exercises
Exercise 11. Annotated Career Counseling Practice Session Transcript
Exercise 12. Mock Career Counseling Sessions
Part III. Strategies for Enhancing the Deliberate Practice Exercises
Chapter 3. How to Get the Most Out of Deliberate Practice: Additional Guidance for Trainers and Trainees
Appendix A. Difficulty Assessments and Adjustments
Appendix B. Deliberate Practice Diary Form
Appendix C. Sample Career Counseling Syllabus With Embedded Deliberate Practice Exercises
References
Index
About the Authors
