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Rebecca Tattersfield
Wake Forest University Department of Counseling
In an attempt to create a meaningful and rich conversation about strong underlying currents to learning interventions like the ICAP to determine the
that do effect peoples’ career decisions, the CBI is left open to important criticisms.
the mental barrier to action.” clinical implications of addressing group beliefs in school
Attitudes and assumptions are difficult to sort, remain subjective, and have limited
psychometric power. This research intends to review the foundations of the CBI, collect its (Krumboltz, Fuqua, Newman, & Walsh, 1994) programs.
criticisms, review its psychometric value, and assess its value in the field. Sample CBI assessment results for “Phillip” (Krumboltz & Vosvick, 1996)
• Further research is needed about this tool’s effectiveness
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FURTHER REVIEW OF THE ASSESSMENT IN THE FIELD
Dorn, F. J., & Welch, N. (1985). Assessing career mythology: A profile of high school students. The School
The Structure of the Career Beliefs Inventory on a Sample of Italian High School Students – Hess, Tracey, Nota (2008)
Counselor, 136-142.
Fuqua, D. R., & Newman, J. L. (1994). An Evaluation of the Career Beliefs Inventory. Journal of
REVIEWING RESULTS WITH CLIENTS
This study advised necessary caution when using this tool in the field, again citing the psychometric instability of the 25 scales and 5 factors, particularly advising that close attention be paid in
Counseling & Development, 429-30. international practices. This study seems to be the first specific population-based assessment of the CBI. The sample for this study was 256 Italian students with a mean age of 15.85 years, 101 males
Hays, D. G. (2017). Assessment in Counseling, A Guide to the Use of Psychological Assessment and 155 females. The purpose of this study was to look at scale equivalence (Walsh W. B., 1994), or “the similarity of the test measuring the same behaviors across culture” (Hess, Tracey, Nota, Ferrari, The CBI organizes the scales into the five categories discussed throughout this research. The
Procedures. Alexandria: American Counseling Association. & Soresi, 2008). The study found that there were some similarities between Italian high school students’ answers to the models cited originally by Krumboltz, in that this study supported the five-factor validity of those five categories, or the lack there of, leaves the analysis of the results open
Hess, T. R., Tracey, T. J., Nota, L., Ferrari, L., & Soresi, S. (2008). The Structure of the Career Beliefs structure. However, the factors were significantly different to the American samples. The Italian sample factors appear to focus on: Career Confidence, Career Activity, Career Independence, Career to counselor discretion. A counselor should review the results before meeting with the client
Inventory on a Sample of High School Students. Journal of Career Assessment, 232-243. Flexibility, and Career Positivity. This study calls for further research to compare samples across cultures and calls for further use of the CBI to access potential universal career beliefs within certain if possible, to determine if there is a grouping or pattern that would enable the richest
Holland, J. L., Johnston, J. A., Asama, N. F., & Polys, S. M. (1993 ). Validating and Using the Career age groups (Hess, Tracey, Nota, Ferrari, & Soresi, 2008). conversation. Another recommended strategy is to begin with the lowest scores – “these
Beliefs Inventory. Journal of Career Development , 233-244.
scores reflect categories of beliefs that have caused difficulties for other people in the past”
Krumboltz, J. D. (1994). Potential Value of the Career Beliefs Inventory. Journal of Counseling & Moving Beyond a Deficit Model to Describe and Promote the Career Development of At-Risk Youth – Schnorr, Ware (2001)
(Krumboltz & Vosvick, 1996) . The CBI profile of scale scores suggests that scores below 39
Development, 432-33.
This study attempted to use the CBI and the CDI to dive into career maturity as it is reported in at-risk youth, hoping to avoid previous culturally insensitive misgivings in the literature. Using the indicate these valuable areas, but it is up to the counselor to determine whether these
Krumboltz, J. D. (1994). The Career Beliefs Inventory . Journal of Counseling and Development , 424-433.
assessments and an integrated career and academic program (ICAP), the study asked if there is a relationship between career maturity and career beliefs, and if that relationship better described the categories create difficulties for this client now.
Krumboltz, J. D., & Vosvick, M. A. (1996). Career Assessment and the Career Beliefs Inventory. Journal of
lower reported career maturity in at-risk youth by avoiding racially insensitive research practices.
Career Assessment, 345-361. It is also recommended to consider the highest scores. These represent strongly held beliefs in
Krumboltz, J. D., Fuqua, D. R., Newman, J. L., & Walsh, W. B. (1994). The Career Beliefs Inventory -- The CBI was chosen because it could indicate career maturity, defined as the “readiness to cope with vocational development along a continuum of vocational tasks, attitudes, skills, and behaviors” areas that indicate career ease vs. difficulties. A counselor can use these areas to collect
Comment/reply. Journal of Counseling & Development, 424. without falling into the deficient model the authors found in other instruments. The CBI and Krumboltz’s career theories in general indicate that beliefs can be influenced by environment and useful information about the client, their past successes, and areas of strength.
Leong, F. T. (2008). Encyclopedia of Counseling: Changes and Challenges for Counseling in the 21st experiences (Krumboltz, The Career Beliefs Inventory, 1994). The authors of this study supposed that those beliefs are then highly associated with career maturity, and that beliefs can be used to
Century. SAGE Publications. Moving from lowest to highest score would be a well-structured session, but following the
“prompt an understanding of and discussion about their social experiences.” Further, the authors suggest that through this structure, career counselors and school counselors can increase their
natural flow of conversation is many counselors preferred tactic. “The CBI scale scores can be
Lewis, R. A., & Gilhousen, M. R. (1981). Myths of career development: A cognitive approach to vocational awareness of the social conditions (environment, experiences etc.) that better explain career maturity of nontraditional groups.
counseling. The Personnel and Guidance Journal, 296-299. viewed as a table of contents to a book of short stories, stories from the life of the client. The
Schnorr, D., & Ware, H. W. (2001). Moving Beyond a Deficit Model to Describe and Promote the Career The Career Beliefs of Inner-City Adolescents – Turner, Ziebell 2011 reader (counselor) can use some creativity to expose the richness of the author’s (client’s)
Development of At- Risk Youth. Journal of Career Development, 247-263. talent. The stories do not have to be read in a particular order” (Krumboltz & Vosvick, 1996).
In another attempt to use the CBI to address the needs of nontraditional groups, in this case inner-city adolescents, this study asks: “What are inner-city adolescents' guiding career beliefs? And are A client may not hold their beliefs or their career history/interest in a lineal construct.
Thompson, A. P. (1976). Client misconception in vocational counseling. The Personnel and Guidance these career beliefs more likely or less likely to position inner-city adolescents to be successful in the current and future world of work?”
Journal, 30-33. Allowing the client to lead the counselor through their own schema gives the counselor a
Turner, S. L., & Ziebell, J. L. (2011). The Career Beliefs of Inner-City Adolescents . Professional School The study consisted of 97 seventh- and eighth grade middle-school adolescents from two American inner-city public schools in a large city of over two million people. The schools were chosen because chance to draw unique and interesting conclusions from their place as an audience member.
Counseling, 1-14. in the first, the student body was ethnically diverse, and in the second, the majority group were Native American students. With adolescent students, counselors should approach review from a place of exploration and
Walsh, B. D., Thompson, B., & Kapes, J. T. (1997). The Construct Validity of Scores on the Career Beliefs learning, not with a preferred or “better” ideas or beliefs that they must adopt. “Learning
Inventory. Journal of Career Assessment, 31-46.
The study found that the strongest held belief-theme among inner-city students were beliefs surrounding the idea that success and effort are related. However, only 24% of the responses indicated that
students believed their efforts were positively related to career success. 70% of the students reported beliefs that were “inconsistent with success being related to their efforts.” This, again, was the approaches that are constructivist, discovery oriented, problem based, experiential, and
Walsh, W. B. (1994). The Career Beliefs Inventory: Reactions to Krumboltz. Journal of Counseling & inquiry based promote independence and self-direction as well as skill development” (Fuqua
Development, 431. strongest reported set of beliefs, which this study interprets to mean that it has the most influence over behaviors. Next were beliefs surrounding flexibility/adaptability, with 18% holding this sample
and 79% tending to be more rigid/less adaptable. The authors assert that these areas contradict the demands of current employment and create real areas of need for school and career counselors to & Newman, 1994).
counteract.
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