Career Counselling
In the Graduate Centre for Applied Psychology (GCAP), career development is viewed as the life-long process of managing learning, work, and transitions in order to move toward a personally determined and evolving preferred future.
The career counselling specialization will provide the specialized knowledge and skills needed to offer quality career development services. Career counsellors assist individuals, groups, or communities in achieving greater self-awareness, developing a life and work direction, increasing understanding of learning and work opportunities, and becoming self-directed in managing learning, work, and transitions.
Professionals with this specialization may end up working in human resource development, career education, career counselling, employment counselling, and community rehabilitation. They may also provide training in personal but job-related areas, such as job search, interviewing, self-exploration, time management, anger management, and entrepreneurship. Career practitioners may work in schools, post-secondary institutions, private vocational colleges, community-based agencies, private practice, federal and provincial government departments, organizations like Workers' Compensation, private agencies, human resources departments in larger businesses, and joint labour-business partnerships.
Career Counselling Specialization Courses
Three of the following options:- GCAP 645: Foundations of Career Development* (Required course for this specialization)
- GCAP 646: Processes and Resources for Facilitating Career-Life Transitions
- GCAP 647: Career Development in Organizational Settings
- GCAP 672: Group Counselling and Process Skills
A range of assessment and intervention modules will be available for students to self-select areas of particular interest. Students may also take courses at other institutions, including but not limited to the members of the CAAP consortium of graduate programs. External course selection is limited by the total of 12 credits of transfer or advance credit permitted.
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