Question: Career Development Intervention

For this assignment, you will choose a specific population which you will base your intervention on. You may choose from the following:

1. Recent college graduates (bachelor's degree with little work experience)

2. Displaced workers (i.e. employees that have recently been laid off)

3. College students

4. Individuals pursuing a second career

5. Single parents

6. Individuals with developmental or physical disabilities

Once you have selected a target group you can be more specific about the characteristics of your group. For instance, if you choose college students, you could specify, those majoring in business administration or if you choose displaced workers, you could specify, those with no college education.

You will submit an 8-10 page paper.

You must include the following required components:

• Description of the target population including relevant career related statistics

• Goals and objectives of the workshop

• Challenges faced by the target population

• Specific intervention plan to address challenges

• Relevant career counseling theory

• Relevant sources of occupational career information

• Description of activities and supplemental materials that would be utilized during the workshop

• Frequently asked questions and answers

• Resources for target population

• Method(s) of evaluation

You should use a minimum of ten (10) sources in addition to the course text.

Be sure to meet the research criteria as specified in the rubric for this assignment that includes the following components:

• A 8-10 page paper in APA format including research materials that are relevant to the assignment, e.g. scholarly journals, professional articles, legal documents, government documents, legal decisions, media clips, software, measurement instruments websites, personal communication, etc.

• Professional/scholarly journals are peer reviewed and focus on the profession/application of psychology (located on Proquest, EBSCOHost, PsycNET, etc.). Non-scholarly articles include newspapers, periodicals, secular magazines, etc, and are not peer reviewed. Websites not approved include wilkipedia.com and about.com.

• Research that focuses on the most current information (past five to ten years) except when citing seminal works (e.g. Freud, Erickson, etc.).

• Includes a minimum of ten (10) sources as references in addition to the course text.