Career Counseling Intervention with Prison Inmates

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Perceived Barriers, Coping with Barriers & Career Decision-Making: A Proposal to Apply the Concept of Self-Efficacy to a Career Counseling Intervention for Prison Inmates N.L. Brown Bowie State University Table of Contents Abstract…………………………………………………………………………………4 Introduction……………………………………………………………………………..5 Statement of the Problem……………………………………………………………5-7 Need for the Study……………………………………………………………7-9 Definition of Terms………………………………………………………….9-10 Delimitations……………………………………………………………………10 Review of the Literature………………………………………………………………11 Literature review……………………………………………………………………….11 Career Barriers………………………………………………………………...11 Perceived Barriers…………………………………………………11-12 Related Studies on Perceived Barriers…………………12-13 Perceived Barriers and Race…………………………………….13-14 Related Studies on Race and Perceived Barriers…….14-15 Coping with Barriers……………………………………………….15-16 Career Beliefs……………………………………………………….16 Theoretical Concepts……………………………………………………….16 Social Cognitive Theory…………………………………………16-18 Self-Efficacy………………………………………………………..18-19 Related Self-Efficacy Studies…………………………..19-20 Career Counseling and Development………………………………….20-21 Career Decision-Making…………………………………………21-22 Related Career Intervention Programs………………………..22-23 Summary of the Literature………….…………………………………………….24 Project PRIDE……………………………………………………………………...24-27 Statement of the Hypothesis…………………………………………………….27-29 Methodology………………………………………………………………………..29 Design………………………………………………………………………29 Participants…………………………………………………………………30 Measures and Instruments………………………………………………30-34 Procedures…………………………………………………………………34 Sample Selection…………………………………………………35 Data Collection…………………………………………………….35 Analysis of the Data………………………………………………36 Limitations…………………………………………………………………..36 Anticipated Results and Conclusions……………………………………………36 Anticipated Findings & Discussion……………………………………….36 Implications for
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