Section 2

Abstract

This paper explores best practices for career interventions through a variety of high school populations including Asian culture, African American students, students with disabilities, and white students.  The interventions involve exposure to career education and experiential learning that help increase motivation as well as career self-efficacy. Social cognitive career theory is explored as a framework for these interventions as the theory explores influences and perceived barriers that are impactful in students’ career decision-making ability and exploration.  There is no one specific intervention discussed that is more successful than the rest but instead, it is the combination and multiple exposure aspects that help students gain a desire to learn and feel motivated to choose and strive for a career path.  The school counselor’s role is to provide opportunities for students to be motivated and build career self-efficacy through career education programs implemented throughout the four years of high school.