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The Legacy of Lawrence Kohlberg: Implications for Counseling and Human Development
Author(s) -
Hayes Richard L.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6676.1994.tb00932.x
Subject(s) - lawrence kohlberg's stages of moral development , relevance (law) , moral development , psychology , developmental stage theories , epistemology , developmental psychology , social psychology , political science , philosophy , law
Despite the great contribution by Lawrence Kohlberg to our understanding of moral development, counselors are only beginning to appreciate fully the implications of his developmental psychology for the practice of counseling and human development. Drawing on the collective body of Kohlberg's work, seven basic assumptions are shown to have direct relevance for conceptualizing counseling from a constructivist developmental approach.