NCE CAREER COUNSELING TEST FINAL EXAM
ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE ACCURATE EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS
(100% CORRECT ANSWERS) /ALREADY GRADED A+
What is narrative counseling - ANSWER -Clients narrate or tell about their past career
development, present career development, and construct their future career.
-Similar to a play or psychodrama, in which clients enact their lives; career is seen as a
story
Application of concepts from literary criticism - ANSWER Agent, setting, action,
instrument, wavering
What is agent? - ANSWER Client, narrator, author of story
What is setting? - ANSWER Where story occurs, also important people such as family,
friends, etc.
What is action? - ANSWER Designed to reach a goal that will satisfy needs of agent
What is instrument? - ANSWER What agent uses to reach goal
What is wavering? - ANSWER When clients waver back and forth, they are moving
toward finding meaning in their career path--an opportunity to clarify needs, values, and
aspirations
What is storytelling? - ANSWER Beginning- difficult or troubling situation, provides
motivation for the middle and end of the story
Middle-obstacles and instruments that may be used in working toward reaching a
personal goal
End-counselor and client work together to develop solutions that will provide satisfaction
and to reach a goal that will satisfy the client
What are the 7 steps of Cochran's Narrative Career Counseling - ANSWER Elaborating
a career problem, composing a life history, eliciting a future narrative: emphasize
making a meaning out of the career narrative
Reality construction, changing a life structure, enacting a role-focus on enactment or
being active
, Episode 7 - refers to crystallization of a decision
1. elaborating a career problem - ANSWER First step is to clarify the client's concerns.
The gap between what the current situation is and what the client wants it to be is the
start of counseling. Number of ways to elaborate problem and fill in the middle
- Vocational Card Sort
- Drawing
-anecdotes
-resume
What is vocational card sort? - ANSWER A group of 60 to 100 cards with the name of
an occupation on one side and information about the occupation on the other side
Clients are asked to sort the cards in three groups:
1. Occupations one would consider or find acceptable
2. Those that one would not choose
3. Those that one is uncertain about
-Then client must divide the three piles in any way by placing the cards in groups that
have common reasons for acceptance or rejection. The counselor is attempting to
determine the values or constructs that are important.
What is drawing? - ANSWER Pictures or symbols that describe:
"What I am"- representation of the actual situation currently facing the client
"What I'd like to be" - middle of the story
"What hinders me" - middle of the story
"What will overcome the obstacle" - ending of the story, how the client would like to be
in the future
What are anecdotes? - ANSWER Short stories that clients tell that help counselor
understand aspects of clients' lives
-Counselor and client work together to find the importance of the anecdote.
Resume - ANSWER The client's resume is useful to identify chapters in his/her working
life and to identify strengths and weaknesses.
2. Composing a life history - ANSWER Two basic intentions:
1. to gather information about client's interests, values, abilities, and motives
2. to attend to the way clients select and organize their life stories
-Ask clients to describe important events in their lives and discuss their meaning (most
common way to obtain life history)
ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE ACCURATE EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS
(100% CORRECT ANSWERS) /ALREADY GRADED A+
What is narrative counseling - ANSWER -Clients narrate or tell about their past career
development, present career development, and construct their future career.
-Similar to a play or psychodrama, in which clients enact their lives; career is seen as a
story
Application of concepts from literary criticism - ANSWER Agent, setting, action,
instrument, wavering
What is agent? - ANSWER Client, narrator, author of story
What is setting? - ANSWER Where story occurs, also important people such as family,
friends, etc.
What is action? - ANSWER Designed to reach a goal that will satisfy needs of agent
What is instrument? - ANSWER What agent uses to reach goal
What is wavering? - ANSWER When clients waver back and forth, they are moving
toward finding meaning in their career path--an opportunity to clarify needs, values, and
aspirations
What is storytelling? - ANSWER Beginning- difficult or troubling situation, provides
motivation for the middle and end of the story
Middle-obstacles and instruments that may be used in working toward reaching a
personal goal
End-counselor and client work together to develop solutions that will provide satisfaction
and to reach a goal that will satisfy the client
What are the 7 steps of Cochran's Narrative Career Counseling - ANSWER Elaborating
a career problem, composing a life history, eliciting a future narrative: emphasize
making a meaning out of the career narrative
Reality construction, changing a life structure, enacting a role-focus on enactment or
being active
, Episode 7 - refers to crystallization of a decision
1. elaborating a career problem - ANSWER First step is to clarify the client's concerns.
The gap between what the current situation is and what the client wants it to be is the
start of counseling. Number of ways to elaborate problem and fill in the middle
- Vocational Card Sort
- Drawing
-anecdotes
-resume
What is vocational card sort? - ANSWER A group of 60 to 100 cards with the name of
an occupation on one side and information about the occupation on the other side
Clients are asked to sort the cards in three groups:
1. Occupations one would consider or find acceptable
2. Those that one would not choose
3. Those that one is uncertain about
-Then client must divide the three piles in any way by placing the cards in groups that
have common reasons for acceptance or rejection. The counselor is attempting to
determine the values or constructs that are important.
What is drawing? - ANSWER Pictures or symbols that describe:
"What I am"- representation of the actual situation currently facing the client
"What I'd like to be" - middle of the story
"What hinders me" - middle of the story
"What will overcome the obstacle" - ending of the story, how the client would like to be
in the future
What are anecdotes? - ANSWER Short stories that clients tell that help counselor
understand aspects of clients' lives
-Counselor and client work together to find the importance of the anecdote.
Resume - ANSWER The client's resume is useful to identify chapters in his/her working
life and to identify strengths and weaknesses.
2. Composing a life history - ANSWER Two basic intentions:
1. to gather information about client's interests, values, abilities, and motives
2. to attend to the way clients select and organize their life stories
-Ask clients to describe important events in their lives and discuss their meaning (most
common way to obtain life history)
