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Career guidance and counseling

Course Description: This course aims to enhance the psychologist's awareness of the concepts, objectives, and domains of career guidance and counseling, as well as the psychological and social foundations upon which the career counseling process is based. It also aims to enable students to identify career guidance and choice theories, with a focus on skills for analyzing individual aptitudes and abilities and linking them to available job market opportunities. The course also includes training students on using appropriate professional tools and assessments to help individuals make informed career decisions, in addition to developing their awareness of their role in supporting career guidance. Through this course, students will gain the ability to practice their future role as career counselors or as personnel capable of providing support and guidance to students in accordance with their abilities and inclinations.
Credits: 2
Objectives of the course :

• The course aims to:
Introduce students to the general fundamentals of career counseling.
• Introduce students to theories of guidance and career choice.
• Define student behavior related to professional institutions and job satisfaction.
Students define effective methods and practices in career guidance.

Course outputs :

The student knows about career guidance and counseling and how to apply it in reality.
The student will discuss the origin and development of the vocational guidance movement.
The student can distinguish between vocational guidance and counseling tests.
To classify student vocational guidance models.
The student analyzes the most important strengths and weaknesses of vocational guidance and counseling tests.
The student will compare between vocational guidance and counseling models.
The student will summarize the role of the counselor in career guidance.

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  • Last updated: 2026-04-30

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