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Donald Super - Career Development Theory

Donald E. Super was an influential American psychologist known for his contributions to career development theory. [1] Super proposed that career development occurs in five stages across the lifespan: growth, exploratory, establishment, maintenance, and decline. [2] Each stage involves developmental tasks related to forming an identity, making tentative career choices, stabilizing in a career, advancing, and preparing for retirement. [3] Super's stages emphasize that career development is a lifelong process that is shaped by one's culture, family experiences, and changing life roles over time.

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Donald Super - Career Development Theory

Donald E. Super was an influential American psychologist known for his contributions to career development theory. [1] Super proposed that career development occurs in five stages across the lifespan: growth, exploratory, establishment, maintenance, and decline. [2] Each stage involves developmental tasks related to forming an identity, making tentative career choices, stabilizing in a career, advancing, and preparing for retirement. [3] Super's stages emphasize that career development is a lifelong process that is shaped by one's culture, family experiences, and changing life roles over time.

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Career Development

Theory
by Donald E. Super
Donald E. Super
• Donald E. Super is most recognized for • Born: July 10, 1910, Honolulu, Hawaii,
his contributions to the vocational United States

guidance movement, and later to • Died: June 21, 1994, Savannah,

counseling psychology, which included Georgia, United States

career counseling and life planning. • Education: Columbia University (1940),


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• Super began his career working as a
• Nationality: American
YMCA employment counselor
throughout the 1930s and 1940s.
The formation of Self Concept

Culture

It’s development in Influenced by


 The culture in which we live Events Family
 The family in which we are born
 The experience that we have
Experience
 The events that befall us
Super’s Developmental
Stages
 Growth Stage (Birth to 15)

 Exploratory Stage (15-24)

Developmental  Established Stage (25-44)


Stages
 Maintenace Stage (45-64)

 Decline (65- and over)


Growth Stage (Birth to 15)
Growth Stage (Birth to 15)

 Developing capacity, attitudes, interests and needs


according to self concept.

 This stage includes four major career development


task:
1. Becoming concerned about the future
2. increasing personal control over one’s own life
3. convincing oneself to achieve in school and at work
4. acquiring competent work habits and attitudes
Exploratory Stage (15-24)
Exploratory Stage (15-24)

 Is the period when individuals attempt to


understand themselves and find their place in
the world of work.
 Through classes, work experience, and
hobbies, they try to identify their interests and
capabilities and figure out how they fit with
various occupations.
 They make tentative occupational choices and
eventually obtain an occupation.
Exploratory Stage (15-24)

 This involves three career development task:

1. The crystalization of a career preference, is to develop and


plan a tentative vocational goal.

2. The spicification of a career preference, is to convert


generalized preferences into a specific choice, a firm vocational
goal.

3. Implementation of a career preference by completing


appropriate training and securing a position in the occupation.
Established Stage (25-44)
Established Stage (25-44)

 Figures out through trial and error what he or she


needs to do to stay in the chosen career.
 This stage involves three developmental task:
1. Stabilizing or securing one place in the organization
by adapting to the organization’s requirements and
performing job duties satisfactorily.
2. The consolidation of one’s position by manifesting
positive work attitudes and productive habits along with
building favorable coworker relations.
3. Is to obtain advancement to a new levels of
responsibility.
Maintenace Stage (45-64)
Maintenace Stage (45-64)

 The period of continual adjustment, which includes


the career development tasks of holding on,
keeping up, and innovating.
Decline (65- and over)
Decline (65- and over)

 Ready for or nearing retirement.

 In this stage individuals encounter the


developmental tasks of deceleration,
retirement planning and retirement living.
- Super assumed that not everyone progresses through these stages at
fixed ages or in the same manner.

-Super’s point to life planning for all students of any culture to prepare them
to take on the multiple roles that they have to face in the future stages
including roles as citizen, worker, spouse or parent.
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