CHAPTER 15
CAREER DECISION-MAKING THEORY
How do you make career choices? Which factors are most important to you?
Have students, in small groups, describe their own career development using Bloch and Richmond’s
seven themes, which encompasses a spiritual approach to career decision-making (pp. 401-404).
Would you find Hansen’s integrative approach to life planning to be helpful in career counseling? Why
or why not (pp. 407-409)?
As a counselor, would the cognitive information processing (CIP) pyramid be helpful in career
counseling?
Compare the spiritual perspective of Miller-Tiedeman to cognitive information processing theory,
assessing advantages and disadvantages of each.
Contrast the structural approach of Krumboltz’s social learning model (or social cognitive career theory)
with cognitive information processing theory, assessing advantages and disadvantages of each.