Chapter 12: Career Construction Theory and Life Designing Paradigm

Test Bank

Multiple Choice

1. The emerging theory that explains the processes through which individuals “construct themselves, impose direction on their vocational behavior, and make meaning of their careers” is ______.

A. counseling for work and relationships

B. career adaptability

C. career construction theory and the life design paradigm

D. psychology of working

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introductory Review

Difficulty Level: Easy

2. Societal changes in the way work is structured prompted Savickas to argue that career should be conceptualized as a ______.

A. life path

B. ladder

C. story

D. collage

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introductory Review

Difficulty Level: Easy

3. A postmodern perspective focuses on how people ______.

A. engage in self-assessment

B. choose jobs

C. construct meaning about their careers

D. narrow their career choices

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Career Construction Theory and Life Designing Paradigm

Difficulty Level: Easy

4. The process of self-construction views individuals as first actors, then agents, and finally ______ of their own lives and careers.

A. authors

B. advocates

C. architects

D. adaptors

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introductory Review

Difficulty Level: Easy

5. As a college student, Danielle is thinking about her future, talking with her advisor about what she might do after she graduates, and looking up graduate school admissions requirements. Which of the “four Cs,” described by Savickas, best characterizes Danielle’s behavior?

A. career concern

B. career control

C. career curiosity

D. career confidence

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Introductory Review

Difficulty Level: Medium

6. Which of the following is NOT one of the four dimensions of career adaptability?

A. concern

B. curiosity

C. coherence

D. control

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introductory Review

Difficulty Level: Medium

7. In Savickas’s conceptualization, vocational guidance is to ______ as career counseling is to ______.

A. focus on scores and traits; matching and occupational fit

B. focus on stories and themes; focus on stages and tasks

C. focus on scores and traits; focus on stories and themes

D. focus on stages and tasks; focus on readiness and vocational development

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introductory Review

Difficulty Level: Medium

8. Which initial question best reflects Savickas’s approach?

A. How will you know if we are successful in working together?

B. Where do you picture yourself in 5 years? 10 years?

C. How can I be useful to you as you construct your career?

D. What do you want to be written on your tombstone?

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Goals of Counseling

Difficulty Level: Medium

9. A counselor is using Savickas’s five-question Career Construction Interview with Isaiah. Which question would not likely be included?

A. “Whom did you admire when you were about age 6?”

B. “What are your favorite television shows or movies?”

C. “What motto or favorite saying seems like good advice to you?”

D. “Where do you dream of retiring?”

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Construction

Difficulty Level: Medium

10. In order to generate a client’s life portrait, counselors need to have “narrative competence” attained by practicing which three skills?

A. understanding the story, elaborating the meaning, addressing inconsistencies

B. entering the story, identifying subplots, addressing inconsistencies

C. understanding the story, fleshing out characters, identifying subplots

D. entering the story, understanding the story, elaborating the meaning

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Reconstruction

Difficulty Level: Medium

11. Why might a counselor employ “healing narratives?”

A. If the client’s background includes emotional or physical abuse.

B. If the client has constructed hurtful stories about himself or herself that get in the way of reconstruction.

C. If the client constructs hurtful stories about others that detract from the client’s own stories.

D. The counselor would never employ “healing narratives.” Only the client can do that.

Cognitive Domain: Application

Answer Location: Co-construction

Difficulty Level: Medium

12. ______ is to Super as ______ is to Savickas.

A. Career concern; career development

B. Career development; career concern

C. Career adaptability; career maturity

D. Career maturity; career adaptability

Cognitive Domain: Knowledge

Answer Location: Introductory Review

Difficulty Level: Medium

Essay

1. Savickas identifies three phases of counseling. Briefly describe those stages, highlighting the counselor’s role or focus in each.

Cognitive Domain: Comprehension

Answer Location: Directions and Implications for Career Counseling

Difficulty Level: Medium