Study On The Group Counseling Effects On The Status Of Occupation Career Planning Of Freshman

Career planning education courses and the corresponding lecture are consideredas the important way to enhance the employability and entrepreneurial ability ofcollege students, currently, this course in the majority of our universities is mainly forsenior graduates. However, the study found that the performance of freshman in termsof interests, abilities and values is more active. If career planning education coursecould be popularized in freshman, then they could made an early planning, set up aclear goal at the beginning of their college life, and to adjust and improve theirplaning during the next four years, at last leads to a leisurely graduation. Based onabove, this study divided into two stages, first, to investigate the career status offreshman, and second, to provide them group psychological counseling.The first stage, career planning status Survey. This study uses “Career PlanningStatus Survey Questionnaire for college students”, which was written by Xia Haiyanof Nanjing Normal University, to survey250freshmen, and uses SPSS17.0to analyzethe survey data. The survey result tells that the score of those participants in the fivedimensions is2.71-3.57, and the score shows freshmen are moderate satisfied withcareer planning. During the five dimensions,the lowest is " career knowledge "(2.71)and the highest score is " career orientation "(3.57).The second stage, group psychological counseling. Selecting17freshmen, whogot a relatively low scores at the first stage, to be volunteers of the experimentalgroup. While by using the method of ’one find a ’ to select another17students as thecontrol group, and to make a pretest between the two groups. Then to dopsychological counseling for the experimental group members by using “freshmancareer planning group psychological counseling program”, and to make a posttestbetween the two groups after counseling. After posttest, by using the feedback toolsof “Members of the group self-rating scale” and “group activities satisfactionfeedback sheets” to make a summary. Compared the data before and after grouppsychological counseling showed that: 1. The “freshman career planning group psychological counseling program” hasachieved good results, which means the program is effective for freshman;2. The members of two groups behaved a significant difference (p <0.001) onfour dimensions of “Total career planning table”,“career knowledge”,“Cognitiveplanning” and “self-awareness”. According to feedback from members of the groupand unit activity diary, it could tell the evaluating result of qualitative effectassessment is good, and the career planning group psychological counseling achievedgood results.