APPRAISING CULTURAL-IDENTITY IN CAREER-DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT AND COUNSELING

Career-Development Assessment and Counseling (C-DAC) systematically br idges career theory and practice. Integrating differential, developmen tal, and phenomenological methods, the C-DAC model uses a comprehensiv e career assessment battery to help clients explore their roles, devel opmental stages and tasks, career attitudes and knowledge, values, and interests within their unique life contexts. The authors recommend el aborating the C-DAC model to formally appraise cultural. identity in s tep one of the model and to consider cultural identity concerns throug hout the C-DAC process. This should help counselors more dearly unders tand how cultural factors influence people's career development and vo cational behavior.