Career Counseling for Latinoa College students Treatment

							Career Counseling for Latino/a
 College students: Treatment
         Implications
                 Background

•   Largest minority population
•   45 countries
•   Ambivalent relationship U.S.
•   Discrimination
         General cultural issues
• Identity development is grounded in:
  – Familismo - interdependence
  – Respeto
  – Personalismo
  – Masculinity/machismo
  – Fatalism/destiny/locus of control
       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
And:
• Selfish v selfless thinking
• Systemic/family/community orientation
• Perceive career barriers
• Lack career information
• Culturally sensitive assessment instruments
          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
• Latinos:
  – High anticipated earnings
• Latinas:
  – Interest in the field
  – Making a difference

     • More indecisive
     • Lower career importance
             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
      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
          In Career counseling:
• Discuss ethnic Id and the role it plays in career
  counseling
• How do this in counseling?
         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
           Focus on cultural strengths
• Ethnic Id (K&D)

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