- 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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