Chaos Theory

• Emerged from economics, mathematics, biology, and physics
• Emphasizes wholeness and change
• Attraction - process used by individuals to organize a coherent self and then maintain and sustain it when change occurs
• Point Attractor: individuals focus on choosing the best occupation based on a match between their personalities, abilities, and interests
• Tunnel vision
• Pendulum Attractor: swings in behavior
• Likely to engage in either-or thinking
• Torus Attractor: Routine, habitual, and predictable thinking and behavior
• Try to control their lives by organizing and classifying people and things
• Like consistency and routine
• Strange Attractor: Go towards change and new things
• Promotes ability to grow
• Spirituality
• Connection: How we are interconnected with the human community, world, and the universe
• Purpose: Human's sense of meaning, purpose, and significance
• Transcendence: Idea that there is a greater power beyond our understanding
•  Harmony: How everything fits together into an intelligible whole
• Calling: Idea that individuals often perceive that what they are doing with their lives is a result of being called
• Shiftwork
• Change is as a result of a phase shift

Constructivism

• 1990s and first two decades of 21st century
• Individuals construct their own realities - there is no absolute
• Constructivism: Describes how individuals construct their own ideas about themselves, others, and their worlds as they try to make sense out of their real-life experiences
• Knowledge is constructed by people (and does not reflect actual reality)
• Social Constructivism: Interpretations about how the social world is constructed by social processes and relational practices
• How social or external processes shape the career development of individuals (rather than how individuals shape their career development based on how they view themselves, others, and their worlds)
• Individuals construct their life using both internal (self) and external (social) processes
• Requires counselor to enter into the psychosocial sphere of a person's career system
• Help clients tell their story in their own language
• Relationship between client and counselor is very important
• Clients construct their worlds and can therefore deconstruct and reconstruct their assumptions and perceptions

Career Development Transition Model (Schlossberg)

• Consists of three parts
• Approaching the transition
• Transition identification and process
• Identifying coping resources
• Emphasizing strategies that can be used to take charge of the transition
• Approaching Transitions
• Types of transitions
• Anticipated (events that occur as part of one's life cycle)
• Unanticipated (events that are not predictable)
• Nonevent (events that were anticipated and planned by that did not happen)
• Must be considered in context for the client
• Must assess where client is in Transition Process
• Situation and the self influence transition
• Support - Must assess assets that the client has in social support
• Strategies - An individual's ability to cope with transitions depends on the changing interaction and balance of his or her assets and liabilities

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvKwVeQXBZs

Ecological Theory Model

• Race/Gender based
• Behavior is a result of a combination of factors at the individual, interpersonal, and broader socioeconomic levels
• Behavior described as an "act-in-context" - context in necessary in determining the meaning behind an individual's behavior
• Used in past when considering evolution of women in the workplace
• Based on ecological theory developed by Bronfenbrenner
• Microsystem - interpersonal interactions within a given environment (home, school, work, etc)
• Mesosystem - interaction between one or more microsystems (ex: work and school)
• Exosystem - linkages between subsystems that indirectly influence the individual (one's neighborhood, the media, etc)
• Macrosystem - ideological components of a given society (norms, values, etc)
• Each of these interacts with other systems at all times
• Clients bring their ecosystems into counseling by conveying how they understand and react to their circumstances

http://drewlichtenberger.com/6-shaping-influences-human-development/

(Happenstance) Learning Theory Model

• Krumboltz 2009
• Factors that influence an individual's behavior
1. Genetics
2. Learning experiences
3. Instrumental learning
4. Associate learning experiences (observed behavior of others)
5. Environmental conditions and events
6. Parents and caretakers
7. Peer groups
8. Structured educational settings
9. Imperfect world (provides opportunities for some and not for others)
• Fundamental Propositions 
1. Goal of career counseling is to help clients learn to take actions to achieve more satisfying career and personal lives - not to make a single career decision
2. Career assessments are used to stimulate learning, not to match personal characteristics with occupational characteristics
3. Clients learn to engage in exploratory actions as a way of generating beneficial unplanned events
4. The success of counseling is assessed by what the client accomplishes in the real world outside the counseling session
• Applying HLT
1. Orient clients expectations, help them understand that anxiety is normal, that the goal of career counseling is to have a satisfying life - but that that is influenced by unplanned events, and also that identifying an occupation becomes a starting point for exploration
2. Identify client's concerns as starting point - meet the client where they are
3. Use client's past experiences with unplanned events
4. Sensitize client to recognize potential opportunities and help them reframe unplanned events as possible opportunities
5. Help client overcome blocks to action
• "What is stopping you from taking action?"
• "What can you do now to take action to reach your goal?"
• Our job is not to resolve anything for the client, but rather to make them feel comfortable with uncertainties
• Being uncertain will lead to new ideas and opportunities

http://wiley-vch.e-bookshelf.de/products/reading-epub/product-id/668821/title/career+planning+for+research+bioscientists.html

Social Cognitive Career Model

• Lent 2013; Lent, Brown, & Hackett 1994
• Pro: Helps to explain vocational behaviors of racial and ethnic groups
• Greater emphasis on contextual factors
• Three intricately linked aspects of career development
• a. Development of interests
• b. Choice of educational and career options
• c. Performance and persistence in educational and vocational realms
• Expanded on Bandura's social cognitive theory and Hackett&Bent's career self-efficacy theory
• "Influence of individual and contextual factors on the socio-cognitive mechanisms of self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and goals and their influence on interests, actions, and performance"
• Self-efficacy beliefs and outcome expectations predict academic and career interests
• Focuses on learning process in realizing career goals
• People may experience more success in certain realms and therefore be more confident in their abilities in that realm, possibly influenced by demographics (sex, race, sexual orientation, etc)
• Counselor's goal is to examine client's past experiences and set realistic goals

http://career.iresearchnet.com/career-development/social-cognitive-career-theory/

Holland's Theory

https://www.careerkey.org/choose-a-career/hollands-theory-of-career-choice.html#.V9nwavorLIU

• Most practical of the theories
• People can be categorized into 6 personality types (RIASEC model)
• Realistic
• Investigative
• Artistic
• Social
• Enterprising
• Conventional
• Environments are said to fit each type 
• Closer one type is to another on the hexagon diagram, the more these types are alike
• When people identify with types that are close together, they are defined as being consistent

https://www.careerkey.org/choose-a-career/hollands-theory-of-career-choice.html#.V9nwavorLIU

• Congruence - how well one's environment fits with their personality type
• Even though an environment may be predominately one type, many different types can be found within every work environment
• Differentiation 
• Highly differentiated - closely resembles one type while being much different from others
• Low - may identify with many different types or no types
• Identity
• Holland developed measure for one's identity
• May be easier to help those with strong identity
• Can be used to answer questions related to the effectiveness of career counseling and job satisfaction
• Personal career theories (PCTs)
• People go to see career counselors when their PCT does not seem to work out
• Given levels based on how realistic/clear PCT is
• Validity, complexity, and comprehensiveness