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Title: Career Counseling for Latinoa College students: Treatment Implications


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Career Counseling for Latino/a College students
Treatment Implications
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Background
  • Largest minority population
  • 45 countries
  • Ambivalent relationship U.S.
  • Discrimination

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General cultural issues
  • Identity development is grounded in
  • Familismo - interdependence
  • Respeto
  • Personalismo
  • Masculinity/machismo
  • Fatalism/destiny/locus of control

4
When in counseling research shows
  • Less likely to seek counseling services
  • Do not discuss problems with stranger
  • Saving face, prestige, dignity
  • Counseling only for psychopathology
  • Bring in physical symptoms

5
  • And
  • Selfish v selfless thinking
  • Systemic/family/community orientation
  • Perceive career barriers
  • Lack career information
  • Culturally sensitive assessment instruments

6
Risco Duffy findings
  • Most important work values
  • Work enjoyment
  • Interest in the field
  • Job security
  • Least important work values
  • Having free time
  • Working without close supervision
  • Family expectations

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  • Latinos
  • High anticipated earnings
  • Latinas
  • Interest in the field
  • Making a difference
  • More indecisive
  • Lower career importance

8
In career counseling
  • Address
  • Work values
  • Family expectations
  • Anticipated earnings
  • Making a difference
  • How these play a role in career development
  • For Latinas
  • Indecisiveness
  • Career salience

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Klingaman Duffy findings
  • Ethnic identity plays a role in Latino/as career
    decidedness
  • Traditional career variables such as
  • Self-clarity
  • Knowledge about careers
  • Indecisiveness
  • Career salience
  • Play a relatively smaller role in career
    decidedness

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In Career counseling
  • Discuss ethnic Id and the role it plays in career
    counseling
  • How do this in counseling?

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Counseling techniques
  • Counselor be aware of
  • own culture, values, attitudes
  • discrimination issues
  • Introduce self at Student Orientation and other
    relevant programs
  • Have contact with Housing, Financial Aid,
    International Students Office

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  • Ethnic Id (KD) Focus on cultural strengths
  • Contact with
  • campus organizations that include Latino/as
  • Mentoring programs on campus to connect
  • with community resources, i.e. National Hispanic
    scholarship Fund, Aspira (academic and career
    counseling)
  • Local Latin communities and festivals

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findings
  • family expectations (RD)
  • Explore family relationships, expectations.
    Involve parents?
  • Homogeneous groups
  • Latinas indecisive, low career salience (RD)
  • Provide info on traditional and non-traditional
    careers
  • Develop academic and career self-efficacy
  • Math and science classes!
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