PS 6350 - Career and Lifestyle Development

Theories and stages of Career & Lifestyle Development will serve as the foundation for an exploration of life planning and career development. This course explores in depth tools for assessing client abilities, interests, values, personality and other factors that contribute to career development. In addition students gain an understanding of as well as develop practice skills in the area of career development program planning, strategies for client skill development and advocacy to include the effective use of labor market information resources, technology and information systems. Ethical and cultural strategies for effective career development will also be explored. (3 credits)