In this final project, you will synthesize what you have learned by developing a career plan to support a client or student’s career development. To complete the project, you will first develop a case study illustrating a fictional client or student with career development needs. You will then apply the Hill and O’Brien (1999) Helping Skills Model to address the needs of this fictional client or student. The Helping Skill Model is outlined in the case study, Darren: The Case of the Unemployed Runaway, located in the Week 10 Learning Resources.
To Prepare:
- Consider the learning resources presented throughout the course. If necessary, for your action plan, review the resume and interviewing resources presented in the Week 11 resources as well. Additional career resources can be found on the Walden University Career Services website (https://academicguides.
waldenu.edu/careerservices/ home). - Access the Hill and O’Brien (1999) Helping Skills Model located in the Week 10 Learning Resources.
- Access the Career Plan template located in the Week 10 Learning Resources.
By Day 7
In 5-7 pages use the Hill and O’Brien (1999) Helping Skills Model to describe the strategies/interventions that you would use to support a client’s/student’s life work plan. The Helping Skills Model is outlined in the case study, Darren: The Case of the Unemployed Runaway. It is located in the Week 10 Learning Resources.
- First, develop a case study to use for this Application Assignment. Do not use “Darren” from the resources. In your case study, you should:
- Briefly describe your client’s/student’s presenting problem or career concern, and
- Relevant sociocultural factors that influence the case.
- Next, following the Hill and O’Brien (1999) model,
- describe the activities that you would engage in at Stage One of your career plan (Exploration, pp. 231–232).
- What techniques would you use to develop rapport, express empathy, and encourage your client/student to “tell his or her story?”
- How would you broach the role of sociocultural factors in your client’s/student’s career story?
- For the second stage, Insight (p. 232), identify the areas that you would focus on to gain a deeper meaning and understanding of your client’s/student’s situation.
- How would you identify his or her interests, abilities, and strengths?
- What career assessments and/or computer-assisted programs might be of use?
- What changes in the world-of-work might be relevant?
- For the Action stage (p. 232), identify
- The plans you would develop
- How you would evaluate them, and
- What follow up activity you would do with your client.
Be sure to include your advocacy statement from your Week 7 Reflection Paper, and how you might advocate with or on behalf of your client or student.
Include anything else that you would like to add to further develop the plan.
Requirements: 5 pages
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Marcos is a sixteen-year-old boy who lives in California. He is the third-born in a family of six, and they are of Hispanic descent. Marcos and his family are immigrants from Mexico and have not integrated fully into the general American culture. While Marcos was also born in Mexico, his family moved into the US when he was still a child, enabling him to undertake most of his education in the American system. His father does manual jobs on construction sites, while his mother is a stay-at-home wife who takes care of the home while their sole breadwinner works. This means that the home income at Marcos’ home is significantly limited, and the effects of such constraints find their way into Marcos’ academic work.
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