Attacking Career Myths among Native Americans: Implications for Counseling.

Abstract

Native-American youths of today are functional cognitive schema when unlike their ancestors in career individuals are contemplating ca aspirations. Today's Nativereer decisions. Examples of dys American youths aspire to a lifefunctional cognitive schema include style in which the Native American drawing conclusions where evi will represent a greater percentage dence is absent (arbitrary infer among the employed and will play a ence), making important career de more viable role in society. The move cisions on the basis of one incident is toward a life-style in which Native (overgeneralization), exaggerating Americans will provide adequate the negative or underplaying the financial and emotional support to positive aspects of a career event their children. This trend is also (magnification or minimization), reflected in a life-style that presents overly self-attributing negative ca more options for the Native reer occurrences (personalization), American than ever before. This new and perceiving career events only in life-style is possible, however, only if extreme terms (dichotomous or ab Native Americans can overcome the solutistic thinking) (Beck, 1970). many barriers—a major one being The hnk between career myths career myths that have prevented and irrational attitudes is supported and continue to hinder occupational ta studies such as Ajden and Safran success. (1978) and Diyden (1979). Other re search has also substantiated the

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