African Americans: Diverse People, Diverse Career Needs

Kimbrough, Verna D.; Salomone, Paul R.

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“…In addition to the need for culturally sensitive theories, special counseling skills and a deeper understanding and knowledge of ethnic minorities may be warranted. Counseling African American clients will require career counselors to be knowledgeable about the cultural values and differences within various African American groups (Kimbrough & Salomone, 1993). Career counselors must also recognize the environmental barriers facing African American men in pursuit of their career goals (Lent & Brown, 1996).…”

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First‐Generation African American Male College Students: Implications for Career Counselors

Owens

Lacey

Rawls

et al. 2010

The Career Development Quart

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The path to upward mobility or economic success for African American men is often filled with obstacles and roadblocks. Many first-generation African American men entering colleges and universities face limited resources and opportunities to aid in their career development and efforts to meet their career objectives. This article explores the career development needs of African American men attending colleges and universities. The article provides suggestions, techniques, and strategies that career counselors and student affairs personnel can use to assist these African American men in their career development. Implications for career counselors are also addressed.

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Section: Theories Of Career Developmentmentioning

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First‐Generation African American Male College Students: Implications for Career Counselors

Owens

Lacey

Rawls

et al. 2010

The Career Development Quart

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“…However, such approaches may reinforce erroneous assumptions of homogeneity within groups and ignore important variability within groups. For example, African Americans differ widely on attributes associated with career participation (e.g., education, disability, prior occupational experiences, interests), which adds to the complexity of the career counseling process with members of that population (Kimbrough & Salomone, 1993;Mpofu, 2005;Worthington et al, 2005). Similarly, persons with disabilities show significant within-group diversity in education, race (skin color), and type and severity of disability as well as in other career-related attributes (Belgrave & Jarama, 2000;Belgrave & Walker, 1991;Curnow, 1989;Harley & Alston, 1996;Melchiori & Church, 1997).…”

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“…For example, individuals from a racial minority background have less access to employmentrelated networks (Brown & Pinterits, 2001;Wilson, Turner, Liu, Harley, & Alston, 2002;Worthington et al, 2005), which constrains their career opportunities. Racial minorities also have unique occupational preferences that are explained, in part, by people from their background that they model (Kimbrough & Salomone, 1993;Miller, Springer, & Wells, 1988). For example, African Americans have a higher preference for occupations in the social, enterprising, and conventional domains; Asian Americans in the investigative and realistic domains; and European Americans in the investigative, realistic, and artistic domains.…”

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Racial and Disability Identity

Mpofu

Harley

2006

Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin

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Racial and disability identities are separate issues, yet they both contribute to the multiple social identities that influence career counseling outcomes for persons of color with disabilities. Few studies have examined the effects of racial and disability identity on the career outcomes of members of this group. This article discusses racial and disability identity as assets for career counseling of people of color with disabilities, whose career counseling outcomes are also mediated by the prevailing racial and disabilities disparities in career participation. Possibilities for further research on identities as resources for career counseling are also discussed.

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Annual Review: Practice and Research in Career Counseling and Development—1993

Subich

1994

The Career Development Quart

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This article reviews literature published in 1993 that is of interest and use to career counselors. Topical areas include definitions of career counseling, descriptions of and outcome research on career assessment and intervention methods, career counseling issues and techniques of particular relevance to women and members of various special groups, and counseling with persons making career transitions.This review presents a selection of the 1993 career literature that I judged to be of interest and use to career counselors. My goal was to provide the reader with what amounts to an organized tour through the year's literature. I attempted to build bridges between individual contributions and thereby reveal something of the larger picture of the practice-relevant literature. In some cases, the literature I reviewed directly related to practice and provided the reader with explicit recommendations; in others, the link was more indirect and provided information, but not recommendations. In the latter cases, I tried to illustrate how I perceived the information to be useful in informing practice.The organization of this review was driven by the literature I read. I had no preconceived structure in which to fit specific works, although my own cognitive processing idiosyncracies surely are reflected in the meaning I made of the year's literature. It made sense to me to first establish the nature of career counseling, then to examine what career counselors do and how well it works, to follow this with attention to client characteristics relevant to career counseling practice, and to finish with consideration of counseling issues and strategies for persons experiencing career transitions. All citations, unless otherwise noted, refer to 1993 literature.Linda Mezydlo Subich is a n associate professor of psychology i n the

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African Americans: Diverse People, Diverse Career Needs

Cited by 6 publications

References 10 publications

First‐Generation African American Male College Students: Implications for Career Counselors

First‐Generation African American Male College Students: Implications for Career Counselors

Racial and Disability Identity

Annual Review: Practice and Research in Career Counseling and Development—1993

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