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Frank Parsons ✔✔The founder of vocational guidance movement (career counseling theory)
who developed the idea of matching careers to talents, skills, and personality
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Comprehensive Counseling Exam Latest
2023 Graded A+
Frank Parsons ✔✔The founder of vocational guidance movement (career counseling theory)
who developed the idea of matching careers to talents, skills, and personality (talent-matching
approach --> Trait and Factor Theory of Occupational Choice)
Rudolf Dreikurs ✔✔Developed Alfred Adler's system of individual psychology into a pragmatic
method for understanding the purposes of reprehensible behavior in children and for stimulating
cooperative behavior without punishment or reward.
Alfred Adler ✔✔Founder of Adlerian psychology (also called individual psychology. Emphasis
on feelings of inferiority in personality development. One of the first practitioners to provide
family and group counseling and address community health. He argued for a holistic view of an
individual and social equality. Theory of three life tasks - occupation, society and love and
developed the concept of social interest. Built upon personality theory.
B.F. Skinner ✔✔Operant conditioning - using positive or negative reinforcement to modify
behavior. Behaviorism
Albert Ellis ✔✔Rational Emotive Behavior Theory (REBT) - an action-oriented psychotherapy
that teaches individuals to identify, challenge, and replace their self-defeating beliefs with
healthier ones that promote emotional well-being and goal achievement. Pre-cursor of Cognitive
Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Albert Bandura ✔✔Social Learning Theory - behavior is learned from the environment through
observational learning, which they imitate with either reinforcement or punishment. Also called
Social Cognitive Theory now. Helped transition between behaviorism and cognitive psychology.
Also responsible for the theoretical construct of self-efficacy (believing in yourself to take
action). Bobo doll experiement (agression)
E.G. Williamson ✔✔Proponent of the Trait and Factor Approach (matching character traits and
jobs/careers). In the 1930's he developed the first comprehensive theory of counseling, which
grew out of the ideas of Frank Parsons.
John Holland ✔✔Theory for Career Choice was based on taking an assessment to find one's
personality type (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, and Conventional -
RIASEC) to match up with an appropriate work environment. Choosing a work environment that
matches your personality type will make one more successful and satisfied.
John Krumboltz ✔✔Learning Theory of Career Counseling (LTCC) supports clients' indecision
and unanticipated opportunities in the career field. Planned happenstance.
John Bowlby ✔✔Sought to understand relationship between children's
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