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Should Counseling Be Considered a Health Care Profession? Critical Thoughts on the Transition to a Health Care Ideology
Author(s) -
Hansen James T.
Publication year - 2007
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.1556-6678.2007.tb00476.x
Subject(s) - ideology , transition (genetics) , health care , nursing , medicine , psychology , public relations , sociology , political science , law , biochemistry , chemistry , politics , gene
The counseling profession has increasingly identified with health care ideology. The logical justifications for this transition are critically examined. Ideological and practical consequences of the health care transition are also considered. The author concludes that the usual ways of justifying the transition to health care are insufficient and that this transition has generally had negative consequences for the counseling profession.