Abstract
The Career Beliefs Inventory (CBI; Krumboltz, 1991, 1992, 1994) is a counseling tool to identify career beliefs and assumptions that may block clients from taking constructive action. Here we answer some frequently asked questions about the CBI and illustrate with excerpts from a counseling case study. The CBI is relatively independent of other career assessment instruments. Scores on the 25 scales reflect categories of beliefs that have caused difficulties for other people in the past. A counselor can use scores to probe for particularly troublesome beliefs and to provide support and insight regarding helpful assumptions. Whether a given belief is helpful or not is a decision for the client to determine—no right or wrong beliefs are designated by the CBI itself.
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