MAC Class Notebook

(Table of Contents)
Chpt 1: Introduction to the Class Notebook
Chpt 2: Registration & Pre-registration
Chpt 3: Required 500 Level Courses
-  MAC 502 (Group)
-  MAC 503 (Individual)
-  MAC 512 (Family Systems)
-  MAC 514 (Developmental)
-  MAC 521 (Gender/Ethnicity)
-  MAC 522 (Abusive Rel.)
Chpt 4: Required 600 Level Courses
-  MAC 601 (Psychopathology)
-  MAC 602 (Assess/TX)
-  MAC 620 (Ethics)
Chpt 5: Elective 500 & 600 Level Courses
-  MAC 651 (Substance Abuse)
-  MAC 661 (Marriage/Family)
-  MAC 671 (Expressive)
-  MAC 691-692 Internship
-  MAC 560 (Children)
-  MAC 570 (Career)
-  MAC 695 (Clinical)
-  MAC 695 (Statistics)
Chpt 6: Independent Study Courses
Chpt 7: Transfer Courses
Chpt 8: Internship Classes

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Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology ("MAC")

MAC 570: "Career Developmental Counseling"
Sample Syllabus (Subject to Change)

Faculty Member:  

Leticia Nieto, PsyD

Course Description:

This course is designed to provide in-depth inquiry into the process of career development and the ways it can be facilitated Through this course students' will evolve an understanding of the tasks of creating a life which will be profoundly practical, thoroughly intimate and inescapably personal.  The goal of the class builds on the concept that work is central to the happiness and well being of each person. This course will empower students to facilitate optimum career development in themselves and their clients.  Objectives of the course include:

1. To become familiar with the major theorists in career development.
   
2. To identify and discuss a diversity of practices in career counseling.
   
3. To develop competence in career counseling through implementation of an action plan.
   
4. To learn diagnostic tools used in career development counseling.
   
5. To enhance self knowledge and therapeutic competence through intensive career self exploration.

Required Textbooks:
(Please do not order your books for the current semester from this list.  It may not be up-to-date.)

• Cameron, Julia (1992). The Artist's Way, Tarcher/Putnam.
• Sher, Barbara (1979). Wishcraft, Ballantine.
• McDaniels & Gysbers, (1992). Counseling for Career Development, Jossey-Bass.
• Tieger & Barron-Tieger, (1992). Do What You Are, Little, Brown and Co.

• In addition, there will be audio tapes on reserve at the MAC office, which will be required as well.

Course Requirements:

Each requirement is worth one-seventh of your grade. Please turn in work on time. I will not accept any work after the last day of class. Please submit two, typed, clear copies of all your written work. One will be returned to you with comments, the other will become a part of the course record.

1. Maintain a journal to include all exercises assigned. The exercises will be selected from the various texts required, please try to do all the exercises in Cameron. Journals will be checked during the course of the semester. Please bring them with you to class. They will be checked but not read by the instructor as they are meant to be private. Please use this assignment for introspection. You are encouraged to obtain a bound journal (rather than loose leaf) for this assignment.
2. Prepare a detailed career counseling plan outlining a six session process. Develop your plan by identifying which assessment and career counseling strategies (tools, exercises, interventions) you will use and in what sequence. (Use any of the techniques covered in the tests. Also, see McDaniels 18, 69, 169, 173, 176,& 177). Present briefly in class. Conduct career counseling with a "client" for six sessions.
3. Identify a "success team" goal and participate in in-class "success team" process. (The goal should be measurable and realistically achievable in twelve weeks. See Sher Chapter 4).
4. Research one career development theory and prepare an experiential presentation of this theory in practice. Presentations can include individual or group interventions. Please include a hand out containing a summary and the main components of the theory, an outline of the intervention you demonstrated and bibliographic information. (Please be aware that many of these theoretical frameworks have influenced and may overlap with one another). Choose from the following theories by signing up on the first night of class:
   • Trait and factor theory (Bolles). 
   • Typology theory (Holland) 
   • Need theory (Roe). 
   • Psychodynamic Theory (Bordin). 
   • Sociopsychological Theory (Astin) 
   • Developmental Theory (Super) 
   • Social Learning Theory (Krumboltz, Farmer) 
   • Life-Role Theory (Brown) 
   • Self-Efficacy Teory (Hackett and Betz) 
   • Occupational Aspiration Theory (Gottfredson) 
   • Career Decision Making Theory (Vroom, etc.)
   • Lifecareer Theory (Miller-Tiedeman)
     
5. Spend one 24 hour period without talking and journal that.
6. Complete a final, written evaluation of your learning and career development journey. Please include a paragraph about your career path from the mytho-poetic perspective. Identify the guiding images and metaphors that emerged in your journaling and exercises.

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