2024

Management and Career Counseling

Name: Management and Career Counseling
Code: PSI13241M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Psychology

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

To show knowledge on the constructivist approach to career counseling;
To reveal assessment and intervention skills in Career Counseling;
To reveal competence to integrate constructivist career counseling practices into other modes of psychological intervention (e.g, educational, organizational, clinical contexts, and populations at risk of social exclusion);
To demonstrate knowledge on the ethical and deontological dimensions of career counseling practice in different settings.

Contents

INTRODUCTION
1.1. Current Career Counseling: Contexts, Challenges, and Concepts
1.2. Counselor’s kills in Career Counseling

CONSTRUCTIVE PERSPECTIVE OF VOCATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT
2.1. Career Construction Theory
2.2. The assessment of personality types, adaptability and life themes

THE CAREER COUNSELING PROCESS
3.1. Career decision-making difficulties
3.2. Stages of Career Counseling Process
3.3. The process of change in career counseling: research
3.4. Career counseling dilemmas: research

Teaching Methods

Teaching methodologies emphasize the close relationship between theory and practice. For example, the first three classes, with a greater emphasis on theoretical content, evolve to practical classes in which students visualize intervention videos, perform simulated practice, conduct a career counseling interview and conceptualize a case. These teaching methods are used to favor the objectives of the curricular unit.
Continuous evaluation
Written test and a practical assignment. In none of them can they have a grade lower than 7.5 values. Each evaluation component has the weight of 50% in the final mark.
Final evaluation
Written test including a theoretical and a practical component. Obtaining any classification below 10 values implies non-approval. Each evaluation component has the weight of 50% in the final mark.

Teaching Staff