COMPETENCIES

1. Build and maintain a positive self-image

1.1 Build a positive self-image while discovering its influence on self and others

1.2 Build a positive self-image and understand its influence on one's life and work

1.3 Develop abilities to maintain a positive self-image

1.4 Improve on abilities to maintain a positive self-emage

2. Interact positively and effectively with others.

2.1 Develop abilities for building positive relationships in one's life (I)

2.2 Develop abilities for building positive relationships in one's life (II)

2.3 Develop abilities for building positive relationships in one's life and work

2.4 Improve on abilities for building positive relationships in one's life and work

3. Change and grow throughout one's life

3.1 Discover that change and growth are part of life

3.2 Learn to respond to change and growth (I)

3.3 Learn to respond to change and growth (II)

3.4 Develop strategies for responding to life and work changes

B. LEARNING AND WORK EXPLORATION

4. Participate in life-long learning supportive of life/work goals

4.1 Discover life-long learning and its contributions to one's life and work

4.2 Link life-long learning to one's life/work scenario, both present and future

4.3 Link life-long learning to one's career building process

4.4 Participate in continuous learning supportive of life/work goals

5. Locate and effectively use life/work information

5.1 Discover and understand life/work information

5.2 Locate, understand and use life/work information

5.3 Locate, interpret, evaluate and use life/work information

5.4 Locate, interpret, evaluate and use life/work information (II)

6. Understand the relationship between work and society/economy

6.1 Discover how work contributes to individuals and the community

6.2 Understand how work contributes to the community

6.3 Understand how societal and economic needs influence the nature and structure of work (I)

6.4 Understand how societal and economic needs influence the nature and structure of work (II)

7. Secure/create and maintain work

7.1 Explore effective work strategies

7.2 Develop abilities to seek and obtain/create work

7.3 Develop abilities to seek, obtain/create and maintain work

7.4 Improve on abilities to seek, obtain/create and maintain work

8. Make life/work enhancing decisions

8.1 Explore and improve decision making

8.2 Link decision making to life/work building

8.3 Engage in life/work decision making

8.4 Incorporate adult life reality into life/work decision making

9. Maintain balanced life and work roles

9.1 Explore and understand the interrelationship of life roles (I)

9.2 Explore and understand the interrelationship of life roles (II)

9.3 Link lifestyles and life stages to life/work building

9.4 Incorporate the "balanced life/work" issue in life/work building

10. Understand the changing nature of life/work roles

10.1 Discover the nature of life/work roles

10.2 Explore non-traditional life/work scenarios

10.3 Understand and learn to overcome stereotypes in life/work building (I)

10.4 Understand and learn to overcome stereotypes in life/work building (II)

11. Understand, engage in and manage one's own career building process

11.1 Explore the underlying concepts of the life/work building process

11.2 Understand and experience the process of life/work building

11.3 Recognize and take charge of one’s life/work building process

11.4 Manage one's life/work building process