In class, I enjoyed talking about the case of Susan. My group and I quickly picked realistic and artistic. We then chose conventional as the third of her Holland personality types. I think it is important for the school counselor working with Susan to explain the different careers for each personality type. I think Susan does not know about other career options because her father is a building contractor, her brother is an electrician, and her older sister stays at home. I believe that with more knowledge of what careers are out there then Susan might choose a different career than what her father does. I also think it is very important for Susan to explore all three of her Holland personality types because she might find a career that interests her in the third personality type.
I like how the Duffy article defines religiousness and spirituality differently (Duffy, 2006). I know a lot of people who say they are spiritual but they are not religious. It makes sense to me that people who are religious and/or spiritual have less psychological stress, higher self-esteem, and greater life satisfaction (Duffy, 2006). These people have a higher power to give their problems to. They do not have to feel accountable if something goes wrong. They feel like they have support and someone to help them make decisions. People who have depression can be told to try to build a social support network to help them get better. Being religious or spiritual can give them that social support network. That can be people in the church, the priest, and even God. They can all be a person's social support network.
I thought it was interesting how the article defines vocation or calling as a career that God picked for a person (Duffy, 2006). I do not believe in a calling for me but I know that others do. I think that each person can be satisfied in a number of different jobs.
Chapter three in the textbook explains career development theories based on learning theory (Brown, 2012, p. 60). I identify with Krumboltz's Social Learning Theory. This theory includes four factors that affect career decision making: genetic endowment and special abilities, environmental conditions and events, learning experiences, and task approach skills (Brown, 2012, p. 60-61). This theory reminds me of the Diathesis Stress model of developing psychopathology. This model says that people are born with genetic predispositions for different psychological disorders, or a diathesis. If people have too much stress in their life then that stress gets added to the genetic predisposition and it leads to the person developing the psychological disorder that the person is genetically predisposed to develop. That person will develop that psychological disorder. In Krumboltz's Social Learning Theory, the environment or stresses affect the person and the person learns from them and builds skills from them (Brown, 2012, p. 61). These skills are used in new events and the person makes future decisions based on how successful they were in using those new skills. Genetics and the environment combine for a learning experience rather than developing a psychological disorder.
References
Brown, D. (2012). Career information, career counseling, and career development (10th ed.).
New York: Pearson Education, Inc.
Duffy, R. D. (2006). Spirituality, religion, and career development: Current status and future directions.
The Career Development Quarterly, 55, 52-63
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