dimly aware. Counselors can use the nature-nurture-partnership
perspective on career development to help young people develop
greater self-insight into both sorts of influence and thereby make
wiser, more satisfying career and life decisions. Specifically, the case
studies of K and E illustrate how counselors can help young people
(1) become aware of the fuller menu of opportunities available to
them in their culture, (2) gain additional relevant experience in
order to learn more about their (genetically conditioned) strengths
and weaknesses, abilities, and interests, and (3) better recognize
how they gradually help create themselves by the sorts of experi-
ence they seek out, reject, and evoke from others in the daily stream
of their lives.
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