1. Career Counseling Assessment

2.  Caroline
 17 year old white female
 High school senior
 Requests help with the career planning
process
 Plans to attend a small, faith based college
and has begun enrollment process

3.  Myers-Briggs
 Help student to become knowledgeable about her
personality type
 Make connections between occupational
considerations and personality type
 Self Directed Search
 Identify interest patterns based on Holland’s typology
 Correlate interests, competencies, and abilities to an
occupation
 Career Style Interview
 Use the student’s personal stories to construct a
career success plan
 Identify themes and tension in the stories to enable
the student to learn how to adapt in the work world.

4.  MBTI – Form M
 93 items
 Completed by student at school
 Scored and results interpreted by counselor
 Second meeting
 SDS
 Self-administered and self-scored (with supervision)
 Seven sections
 Interpreted in consultation with counselor during third
meeting with student
 CSI
 Fifth meeting - Counselor interviews student in office
 Sixth meeting – Counselor and student create a theme
map and success formula based on interview answers
 7 questions

5.  Nosignificant medical or developmental
considerations were noted.

6.  Studentgave no indication of previous
psychiatric issues in family.

7.  School Activities
 Leader in several organizations
 Respected member of the student body by both
teachers and students
 Academic
 GPA – 3.8 using a 4.0 scale

8.  Family structure
 Mother and father married
 Mother - outgoing leader
 Father - quiet, strong
 Older brother, recently married
 Considered a leader
 Idolizes brother
 Strong family connections
 Social Connections
 Several meaningful friendships with peers
 Active in local church
 Voted “Friendliest” by classmates

9.  MBTI –
 ENFJ: Extrovert,Intuitive,Feeling,&Judging
 All types are valuable
 Split-half reliability and internal consistency are high
(.90/some .80). Some debate concerning internal
consistency.
 SDS –
 Summary Code - SEA
 Social (42)
 Enterprising (39)
 Artistic (33)
 Substantial test-retest reliability (.76 to .89) and
validity is at the high range for interest inventories.

10.  CSI –
 Themes –
 Social, Artistic, Poised
 She feels pressure to live up to her mother’s/brother’s
example, but is more comfortable being a part of the
team.
 Pain – She feels like she has to live up to the
expectation of leadership exhibited by her
mother and brother and fears she will fail.
 Research is presently be conducted to establish
reliability and validity for this qualitative form of
assessment.

11.  MBTI –
 Enjoys working with people
 Perceives relationships, meanings, & possibilities
 Use personal feelings, values to make decisions
 Rather make a judgment quickly
 SDS – Student may enjoy jobs that include the following:
 Helping, counseling, social service,
 Directing others, success, extroverted
 Artistic activities, creativity, open to experience
 CSI –
 Success Formula – Life is best when she is able to
express herself artistically, with poise and work with
people in a cooperative manner

12. After consulting and receiving feedback from
the student concerning the results of all
assessments, the counselor will:
 Provide and discuss information concerning
occupations suggested by all assessments.
 Discuss further career plan objectives
 Follow-up to determine progress toward career
planning goals. Also counsel the student
concerning other potential counseling needs.

13. Holland, J. L. (1994). Self-directed search: You and your
career. Lutz, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.
Holland, J. L., Fritzsche, B. A., & Powell, A. B. (1997). Self-
directed search: Technical manual. Lutz, FL: Psychological
Assessment Resources.
Schaubhut, N. A., Herk, N. A., & Thompson, R. C. (2009).
MBTI form M: Manual supplement. Retrieved from
http://www.cpp.com/pdfs/MBTI_FormM_Supp.pdf.
Whiston, S. C. (2009). Principles and applications of
assessment in counseling. Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole,
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Zunker, V. G. (2012). Career counseling: A holistic approach.
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