CHAPTER 12
RELATIONAL APPROACHES TO CAREER DEVELOPMENT
EXERCISE 12.1
RELATIONSHIPS AND CAREER CHOICE
E. 1. In what ways has your mother (or other female parental figure) influenced or affected your career
choice? (Roe, Parent-Child Care Interaction)
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E. 3. How has the quality of your relationship with your parents affected your career choice?
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E. 5. List three examples of relying (or not relying) on others in your career decision-making. For
example, do you use others as a sounding board, do you get information from them about you, are you
afraid to not use others, or do you not use their opinion at all? (Phillips’s Developmental Relational
Model-Self-Directedness)
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