Career Counseling for Homemakers
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Although adult career counseling programs are widely available to help diverse adult populations in their career planning, displaced homemakers constitute a unique population that requires distinctive career counseling services (Kerka, 1987; "Overview and Findings," 1985; Stravelli, 2004). In general, displaced homemakers are typically women who have devoted several years of their lives to homemaking and have "lost their primary source of income due to divorce, separation, death or disability of a spouse" (Stravelli, 2004). Many of these women, typically aged between 35 and 64, are unemployed, working part-time, or doing jobs that pay below the minimum wage ("Overview and Findings," 1985). Unlike other adult populations, displaced homemakers' situations are often complicated by the presence of children, the sudden shock of losing their primary source of income and their lack of emotional self-sufficiency (Laabs, 1994; Stravelli, 2004). Based on this description, it is evident that the development of an effective career counseling program should take into account each of the aforementioned concerns of displaced homemakers. In this paper, Vetter et al.'s (1986) model of an adult career counseling program (in Kerka, 1987) will be integrated with the More Options for Mothers who are Single (M.O.M.S) program provided by the Center for New Directions in Columbus, Ohio to provide an ideal career counseling program for displaced homemakers (Laabs, 1994). Vetter et al.'s (1986)
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eal for the career counseling program for displaced homemakers can be obtained from Black and Hecklinger's (1994) book, Training for Life: A Practical Guide to Career and Life Planning. This particular instrument helps individuals to determine their work and personal values in which they are asked to rate their perceptions of work conditions, work purposes, work relationships and personal aspirations, in terms of their level of importance to them. By learning about their values and objectives in life, displaced homemakers will thus be better able to determine what type of work will be the most fulfilling and meaningful for them (Laabs, 1994).
Exploration and Information Gathering
For this component of the career counseling program, program administrators help clients to engage in activities that will help them explore specific occupations that are compatible with their skills and abilities. Clients can learn about their interests and preferences, recognize their underlying motivation to work and construct a profile of their desired occupation (Kerka, 1987).
In the case of a career counseling program for displaced homemakers, the use of mentors can be a highly effective strategy for providing guidance and support for th
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