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Relationship and Growth Theories and Agency Counseling
Author(s) -
WARNATH CHARLES F.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
counselor education and supervision
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.608
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1556-6978
pISSN - 0011-0035
DOI - 10.1002/j.1556-6978.1977.tb01052.x
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , psychology , counselor education , sense of agency , personal development , psychotherapist , social psychology , higher education , epistemology , philosophy , political science , law
In general, counselor educators have borrowed heavily from psychotherapeutic theories in conceptualizing service delivery models. These models have in common an assumption that the goal of counseling is the personal growth and development of the client that results from the relationship between the participants in the helping process. The adoption of psychotherapeutic and growth experience models by counselor educators leads to at least two problems for counselors who work in agency settings: (1) the high turnover, transitory nature of the caseload does not lend itself to the type of interactions where relationships can be central to the goals of counseling. And (2) the problems presented by the majority of agency clients are not amenable to solution through the self‐exploration methods of the psychotherapeutic and growth experience models because of various constraints of agency practice.