Learning Theory in Career Counseling

LTCC

Krumboltz developed a learning theory for career counseling(LTCC) to provide counselors with ways to intervene in career situations to help clients. Clients will need assistance developing better self-observation generalizations, worldview understandings, and new task approach skills.

LTCC assumes that counselors should be able to help clients cope with four different career-related trends.

• Clients need to develop and expand their interests. They must be able to see past their current abilities, which will allow them to examine other options. 
• Clients need to prepare to develop new tasks and understand that their occupations might change. Jobs are unstable, and counselors are responsible for helping clients develop new strategies for learning new tasks and skills.
• Counselors need to empower their clients to take action so that they may make proper career choices. 
• Career counselors must be able to assist their clients with all career problems, not just career selection. 

 LTCC addresses both environmental and intra-individual variables that affect career development. This helps with the unpredictable nature of the work world. It addresses the need for the counselor to assist and walk with the client through the career process.