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The Professional Identity of Contributors to the Journal of Counseling & Development : Does It Matter?
Author(s) -
Weinrach Stephen G.,
Thomas Kenneth R.,
Chan Fong
Publication year - 2001
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.1556-6676.2001.tb01956.x
Subject(s) - publishing , identity (music) , mental health , content (measure theory) , professional development , psychology , psychoanalysis , medical education , sociology , pedagogy , medicine , psychiatry , political science , law , philosophy , mathematical analysis , mathematics , aesthetics
R. K. Goodyear (2000) criticized the methodology and results of a study which demonstrated that during the editorial terms of Goodyear (1984–1990) and Claiborn (1990–1993) there was a trend toward publishing articles written by psychologists as opposed to counselors in the Journal of Counseling & Development (JCD). The issue of journal content goes to the heart of professional identity. The authors assert that professional affiliation of contributors matters less than the content of the articles published in JCD (i.e., articles must “speak” the language of counselors and not the language of some other mental health professional).