Robert Lent
Steven Brown
Gail Hackett
Three aspects of career development:
1. The development of interests
2. The choice of educational and career options
3. Performance and persistence in educational and
vocational realms
Self –efficacy beliefs – defined as people’s judgements of
their capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to attain
designated types of performance.
Outcome expectancies – defined as personal beliefs about
probable response outcomes.
Implications of Lent, Brown, and Hackett’s Social Cognitive
Career Theory for the Practice of Career Counseling:
1. Counselors should help clients examine the
importance of the learning process and the specific learning experiences they
have had that have helped to shape their current career path.
2. Specifically, the theory suggests an
investigation of both how previous learning has helped to shape clients’
confidence or self-efficacy about their career plans and how these experiences
may have shaped clients’ outcome expectations and eventual career interests.
3. It maybe be very useful to examine how
career-related self-efficacy beliefs developed and what barriers the clients
experience in the development of their confidence around various career-related
experiences.
4. The theory emphasizes the need to carefully
examine person inputs such as gender, race, sexual orientation, level of
ability or disability, an social class in the formation of self-efficacy
beliefs.
5. It may also be helpful to examine past performance
attainment and the clients’’ perceptions of future performance goals.
6. According to this theory, an important role for
counselors is in helping clients examine positive and realistic expectations
for themselves and helping them develop specific goal sto meet these
expectations.
A short overview of Lent, Brown, and Hackett’s social
cognitive theory:
SCCT Overview Slideshow
http://slideplayer.com/slide/6017706/
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