Thursday, September 8, 2016

Super's Life-Span, Life-Space Theory

  • Defined in 1990
  • Developmental view of career choice
  • "Career choice is a process, not an event."
  • Elements of a good vocational theory
    • Individual differences
    • Multipotentiality 
    • Occupational ability patterns
    • Identification and the roles of models
    • Continuity of adjustment
    • Life stages
    • Career patterns
    • Guided development
    • Idea that development is the result of interaction
    • Dynamics of career life
  • Differential psych, developmental psych, occupational sociology, and personality theory
  • People cannot make career choices until they define their self-concept. This can change over time (http://www.careers.govt.nz/practitioners/career-practice/career-theory-models/supers-theory/).

14 propositions
  • (3) People have different abilities, interests, and values
  • (6) Roll of self-concept in making career choices, career patterns and career maturity
  • (4) Synthesis and compromise between individual and social factors and work and life satisfactions
  • (1) Work and life interactions

Life Career Rainbow Model
  • Life stages labeled as growth, exploration, establishment, maintenance, and decline
    • Maxi-cycles - cycling through stages
    • Mini-cycles - Go through all stages before progressing forward
    • Stages are linear, but are not all experienced at the same time for everyone
  • Life space - homemaker, worker, citizen, leisurite, student, and child

  • Career maturity 
    • Readiness to engage in developmental tasks appropriate to age and level person is at
    • Not able to be reached, rather it is a goal
    • Super suggests term for adults should be "career adaptability"

  • Career Development Assessment and Counseling (C-DAC) model
    • First phase: assessment of importance of the work role in the relaitonship to other life roles
    • Second: identifying career stage and career concerns of client, then finding resources for implementing plan 
    • Third: Interests, abilities, and values are assessed by following trait and factor methodology
    • Fourth: Assessment of client's self-concept and life themes by using qualitative assessment procedures

(http://www.careers.govt.nz/practitioners/career-practice/career-theory-models/supers-theory/)

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