Theory Area 5: Learning Theory of Career Counseling and Happenstance Approach
Explain your career choice in terms of Learning Theory’s 4 factors.
Provide evidence for the instrumental and associative learning that you experienced and that influenced your career choice? Be sure to identify whether the
experiences were direct or vicarious
Explain if there were any happenstance instances that influenced your career choice
Identify the 5 critical skills for handling happenstance events. Provide evidence for your ability to handle happenstance events according to the 5 critical
skills outlined by Krumboltz:
Curiosity
Persistence
Flexibility
Optimism
Risk Taking
What skills need better development? Why?
Explain the activities in which you engage that may invite planned happenstance events related to your career choice? If you do not currently engage in these
activities, provide some practical examples of things you might do in the future to invite happenstance events.
