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  1. A counselor helps a recently laid-off client reframe the experience as a chance to explore new fields. This intervention best reflects which career development concept?

    Answer: Planned happenstance

    Planned happenstance reframes unexpected events like job loss as opportunities for exploration and growth rather than setbacks.

  2. In Social Cognitive Career Theory (SCCT), 'outcome expectations' are best defined as:

    Answer: Personal beliefs about the results that will follow a particular behavior

    Outcome expectations in SCCT reflect what individuals believe will happen as a result of performing a career-related behavior.

  3. Which of the following best describes the 'maintenance' stage in Super's developmental model?

    Answer: Preserving one's position and updating skills while resisting obsolescence

    During maintenance (ages 45–65), workers focus on holding their position, innovating to stay relevant, or stagnating if they stop growing.

  4. A school counselor notices a student avoids math-related activities due to past failure. According to SCCT, the counselor should target which factor first?

    Answer: Math-related self-efficacy beliefs

    Low self-efficacy from negative learning experiences is a primary SCCT barrier; improving it can expand the student's career consideration set.

  5. The Minnesota Theory of Work Adjustment (TWA) holds that job satisfaction and satisfactoriness are both necessary for:

    Answer: Achieving tenure and long-term job retention

    TWA posits that correspondence between worker needs and job reinforcers (satisfaction) and between worker abilities and job requirements (satisfactoriness) predicts tenure.

  6. Which ethical issue is MOST relevant when a career counselor uses computer-based career guidance systems with clients?

    Answer: Informed consent and appropriate interpretation of results

    Counselors must ensure clients understand the purpose, limitations, and proper interpretation of computer-generated career profiles.

  7. A career counselor uses narrative techniques to help a client author a 'life story.' This approach is MOST consistent with:

    Answer: Career Construction Theory (Savickas)

    Savickas's Career Construction Theory uses narrative methods—including the Career Style Interview—to help clients construct meaning from their career stories.