scholarly journals Making Informed Choices, for Now and Later

2020 ◽  
pp. 197-222
Author(s):  
Herzog Patricia
Keyword(s):  
Professional Identity ◽  
Career Path ◽  
Career Exploration ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
Research Assistant ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Career Options

Chapter 8 explains that college provides a safe place to explore different career options. Students learn that switching majors, interning, working as a research assistant, and talking with professors are all excellent ways to test out majors and assess whether a career in that field is a good fit. Simultaneously, the chapter presents college as a safe space for career exploration and addresses tips for changing majors, talking with parents about desired careers, finding a vocation or career path, and shaping professional identity. The book culminates with a section about how to navigate college, and life generally, with research-based decisions. Following these recommendations will ensure that students continue their journey as learners, informed citizens, and social leaders long after they finish reading this book.

scholarly journals Modeling of factors influencing exploration of medical career choices

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Rizma Adlia Syakurah ◽  
Yayi Suryo Prabandari ◽  
Widyandana Widyandana ◽  
Taufan Bramantoro
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Career Exploration ◽  
Partial Least Square ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Personal Accomplishment ◽  
Career Interventions ◽  
Path Modelling ◽  
Career Options

Majority of medical students choose clinical specialties as their career choice, compared to other medical fields. This study aimed to finding an effective model of career exploration behaviour in medical students to construct effective career interventions. This study obtained 1030 students of medical faculties in Indonesia. All data used an online survey questionnaire that was collected starting from October 12<sup>th</sup>-25<sup>th</sup> 2015. Data analysis used Partial Least Square-Path Modelling using R statistical software to create a model in order to find correlation and pathway among each variable. The result showed both direct and indirect correlation towards the variables studied. Personal accomplishment had a stronger influence on self-efficacy (β=0.317, p&lt;0.001). This study concluded that verbal persuasion and self-efficacy correlate directly to career exploration.<strong> </strong>All variables are related to career exploration in medical students. Educators and policymakers are able to construct intervention in this area to encourage medical students to start exploring career options early.

scholarly journals Pathways and Barriers to Careers in Academic Clinical Cancer Prevention: a Qualitative Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Y. Kok ◽  
Janelle C. Chavez ◽  
Pompeyo R. Quesada ◽  
Oluwapelumi T. Adegoke ◽  
Shine Chang
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Prevention ◽  
Role Models ◽  
Primary Care Physicians ◽  
Career Exploration ◽  
Comprehensive Cancer Center ◽  
Cancer Center ◽  
Opportunities To Learn ◽  
National Surveys ◽  
Clinical Cancer ◽  
Career Options

AbstractNational surveys document steady declines over time in interest in academic medicine and cancer prevention careers (Am J Prev Med 54(3):444–8, 2018). Through interviews with 16 academic cancer prevention physicians at one comprehensive cancer center, this study identifies motivations and barriers to physician careers in academic cancer prevention and proposes recommendations to increase recruitment. Participants reported that cancer prevention was vague to them early in training, impairing career exploration. Further, without role models and opportunities to learn about cancer prevention, many were ignorant of career options. Many had incorrect views about cancer prevention practice being mainly within the scope of primary care physicians, and some reported colleagues viewing the rigor of cancer prevention skeptically. However, all described notable experiences—in classes, with mentors, on research projects, or from encounters with patients, motivating them to pursue academic clinical cancer prevention regardless of challenges. Clearly, a lack of both information and guidance towards careers in clinical cancer prevention has been critical barriers to robust recruitment of physicians to the field and must be addressed urgently. Helping physicians earlier during training to both understand the value of prevention and cultivate their interests in it, particularly for clinical cancer prevention, would have widespread benefits.

scholarly journals Conceptualizing Well-being in Youth: The Potential of Youth Clubs

Young ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 110330882093757
Author(s):  
Ingunn Marie Eriksen ◽  
Idunn Seland
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
Youth Workers ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Sense Of Mastery

This study identifies key mechanisms in youth clubs for fostering well-being among vulnerable youths. We develop a framework to conceptualize prerequisites of well-being in youth, namely having a safe place to be, positive relations with others and possibilities for growth. This conceptualization maintains insights from psychological elements of well-being while bringing psychosocial theory of identity in youth into a sociological orientation. Understanding youth as a dynamic and situated phase expands the investigation of both well-being and youth clubs from merely revolving around ‘risk’ and ‘protection’. Based on interviews with youth workers and participants in youth clubs in Norway, the article describes how ‘hanging out’ in adult supervised but otherwise unstructured spaces provide youths with safety, belonging and a gradual sense of mastery. As such, the club may function as an institutionalized safe space and gives time, a ‘moratorium’, offering vulnerable youths shelter from adult responsibilities and the acceleration of societal demands.

scholarly journals Dreaming of Silence

2020 ◽  
pp. 194084472093781
Author(s):  
Donna F. Henson
Keyword(s):  
Safe Space ◽  
World Peace ◽  
Safe Place

Situated in the interplay between and among the creative and critical, the lyrical and liminal, the communicative and performative, this fractured, layered essay explores the hopeless/hopeful flight of tales of trauma in this time of the Crisis Ordinary. In the safe space, safe place afforded by autoethnography, I reflect on the luxury of silence and dream of world peace.

Career Exploration and Career Decision-Making Difficulties

2017 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 445-456 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Storme ◽  
Pinar Celik
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Career Decision ◽  
Career Exploration ◽  
Career Decision Making ◽  
Creative Self ◽  
Career Options ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Environmental Exploration

This article investigated the moderating role of creative self-efficacy (CSE) on the relationship between career exploration and career decision-making difficulties among French undergraduate students ( N = 415). Drawing a parallel between the career decision-making process and the notion of creative problem-solving, we reasoned that career exploration without CSE—that is, the confidence in one’s own ability to solve original and complex problems—can be associated with career decision-making difficulties. Our study shows that among students who have low levels of CSE, environmental exploration, and self-exploration regarding career options are respectively associated with dysfunctional beliefs regarding one’s career path and general indecisiveness. We discuss the implications of the results.

Diverse Careers in Community Psychology

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Community Psychology ◽  
Career Paths ◽  
Career Path ◽  
Psychology Training ◽  
Community Psychologist ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Job Titles ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Career Options ◽  
Career Survey

The goal of Diverse Careers in Community Psychology is to (1) highlight the diversity of career options for someone with community psychology training; (2) provide details about the different types of careers (e.g., tasks involved, benefits and challenges, salary range, and so on); and (3) list the steps one can take to develop skills and position oneself for such a career. This text provides a better understanding of the diverse career options available for people who train in community psychology (CP), and how the CP competencies are put into practice across the full spectrum of job titles and career paths that a community psychologist might follow. The book includes 23 chapters authored by 30 different community psychologists with various backgrounds, interests, and areas of expertise, who provide examples of what it is like to work in their settings. The book also includes a summary of a first-of-its-kind career survey of over four hundred individuals in the field. It is our hope that this text will help current, prospective, and former students in community psychology and related fields, as well as professionals interested in expanding or changing their careers, to find an ideal career path.

Audience Diversity and Wellbeing at UK Drag Events

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Baxter ◽  
Steve Jones ◽  
Claire Leer
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Safe Space ◽  
Political Protest ◽  
Emotional Wellbeing ◽  
Safe Place ◽  
Qualitative Survey ◽  
Diverse Backgrounds ◽  
Mainstream Society ◽  
The Uk

Over the last 15 years, there has been a significant increase in the promotion and integration of drag culture into mainstream society. Drag events have the ability to create a safe place for people from diverse backgrounds to celebrate and gather. What were once underground expressions of gender and political protest for the LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer plus other identities) community, drag events have now transcended into a modern-day phenomenon, bringing people together to participate and feel a sense of enjoyment and wellbeing. The current literature on drag culture focuses on the performers’ perspective rather than the audience’s. This study aims to explore the diverse nature of attendees at UK drag events and to demonstrate how these events create a sense of inclusivity and impact the wellbeing of those attending. An online qualitative survey of respondents (n=248) who had attended at least one drag event in the UK was carried out. This was a UK study which encompassed experiences from across the country. This focus on the UK is justified due to the dearth of literature in this geographical area.The results indicate that drag events in the UK have become more mainstream, with the audience demographic becoming more diverse and inclusive. Drag events were considered by the attendees as a safe space, where they seek escapism from everyday life by immersing themselves in the drag experience. This enhanced their mental and emotional wellbeing. The study demonstrated that drag events provide an exciting, stimulating, and novel experience where individuals have a place for self-expression, can socialise, have fun, be accepted and feel a sense of freedom and happiness in a non-judgmental environment.

scholarly journals Ego Identity Status of Medical Students in Clerkship

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. e4-e10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanya Beran ◽  
Kent Hecker ◽  
Sylvain Coderre ◽  
Bruce Wright ◽  
Wayne Woloschuk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Professional Identity ◽  
Parental Influence ◽  
Objective Measure ◽  
Ego Identity ◽  
Identity Status ◽  
Identity Statuses ◽  
Ego Identity Status ◽  
Career Options

Background: Medical students encounter a variety of experiences that have an impact on their emerging professional identity. Clerkship, in particular, presents opportunities for students to consider their career options and decide upon a career path. The process of developing their professional identity begins well before clerkship, however. Anecdotal evidence suggests that interests in medicine begin as early as childhood. This study retrospectively examines the decision-making process clerks make in choosing medicine as a career.Methods: A total of 76 clerks (36 male, 34 female, 6 not reported) responded to four open-ended and two follow-up questions that measure career interests and pursuits. Questions addressed when and how students developed interests in medicine and alternate careers before beginning medical school. An additional eight closed questions drawn from the Ego Status Extended Objective Measure of Ego Identity Status II (EOM-EIS-II) were administered. Content analyses and inter-rater reliability analyses were conducted to classify students according to Marcia’s1  four ego identity statuses.Results: Having obtained high inter-rater consistency (Cohen’s Kappa coefficient of 0.92), responses to the open-ended questions resulted in the classification of three identity statuses. In total, 49.3% of students were in the ‘achieved’ (high exploration and commitment to choices) status and 48.1% were in the ‘foreclosed’ (low exploration but high commitment to choices) status. A small percentage (1.3%) of students were in the ‘moratorium’category (high exploration but low commitment to choices), while none of the students were in the ‘diffused’ (low exploration and low commitment to choices) category.Conclusions: With approximately half of the students demonstrating a ‘foreclosed’ status, this study reveals that despite exposure to a variety of careers when attending university, only half of the students had seriously pursued a career outside of medicine. The majority of students, moreover, developed an interest in medicine before adulthood, and did so independently from parental influence.

scholarly journals Quartet cards as the media of career exploration for lower-grade primary school students

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 174
Author(s):  
Yulia Ayriza ◽  
Farida Agus Setiawati ◽  
Agus Triyanto ◽  
Nanang Erma Gunawan ◽  
Moh Khoerul Anwar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Field Testing ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Career Exploration ◽  
Primary Students ◽  
Lower Grade ◽  
School Students ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Career Options

A career developed through the optimization of one’s potentials will irrevocably play a role in the development of self-identity as well as the psychological well-being of the individual. When children are introduced and allowed to explore as many career options as possible during their developmental stage, they are more likely to have a fruitful career development in the future. The preceding study showed that the career interests and knowledge of lower-grade primary students fit the Holland Career Categories: realistic, investigative, artistic, social, enterprising, and conventional (RIASEC). It was also found that the students’ career interest and knowledge levels varied, with most in the low level. This second-year study aims to expand the results of the previous study by developing the use of Quartet cards as the media of career exploration for lower-grade primary students. By using the research and development method, this study develops Quartet Career Cards into three difficulty levels: low, medium, and high. The Quartet cards media have undergone feasibility tests conducted by experts in theory and media, as well as a series of field testing consisting of preliminary, main, and operational stages among a total of 266 primary students of grades 1, 2, and 3. A revision was made on several components including the images, information, colors, font sizes, illustration styles, and card sizes. The findings show that Quartet Career Cards meet the feasibility standards for the media of career exploration

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