Professionalization of counseling through theory-grounded practice: are the ideas of man covered by psychological theories still up-to-date?
Counseling is grounded in psychological theories, which come either from clinical psychology or from organizational psychology. Each have ideas of man as a basic concept, though each theoretical approach seems to have its own special perspective. None of these different approaches serves as an appro...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Psychosozial-Verlag GmbH & Co. KG
2009-02-01
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| Series: | Journal für Psychologie |
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| Online Access: | http://www.journal-fuer-psychologie.de/jfp-1-2009-03.html |
| Summary: | Counseling is grounded in psychological theories, which come either from clinical psychology or from organizational psychology. Each have ideas of man as a basic concept, though each theoretical approach seems to have its own special perspective. None of these different approaches serves as an appropriate theoretical basis for counseling in the post-modern society. There will be discussed, if cross-disciplinary theories of the subject instead might contribute to a general theory of counseling. Finally Grounded Theory as proposed by Glaser and Strauss is suggested as a method for generating a more appropriate theoretical basis of professional counseling. |
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| ISSN: | 0942-2285 |