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Placing Our Counseling Texts in Context: A Reply to Lyddon
Author(s) -
Steenbarger Brett N.
Publication year - 1995
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.1556-6676.1995.tb01797.x
Subject(s) - dialectic , epistemology , diversity (politics) , causation , context (archaeology) , psychology , sociology , philosophy , anthropology , history , archaeology
Following Lyddon (1995), contextualist understandings of development, including dialectical change and cognitive construction, are distinguished from organismic perspectives on the basis of the distinction between formal and final causation. Life‐span developmental and postmodern contextualist trends are offered as a viable framework for emerging counseling theories that seek to capture the diversity of human development.