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A New Paradigm for Teaching Counseling Theory and Practice
Author(s) -
CHESTON SHARON E.
Publication year - 2000
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.1556-6978.2000.tb01236.x
Subject(s) - group cohesiveness , psychology , paradigm shift , consistency (knowledge bases) , intervention (counseling) , contemporary theory , engineering ethics , epistemology , social psychology , computer science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , psychiatry , engineering
The author discusses a paradigm for understanding the myriad of counseling theories and their corresponding intervention techniques. The paradigm organizes counseling theory and practice around three principles: a way of being, a way of understanding , and a way of intervening. The paradigm assists counselors in sorting out the similarities and differences between the counseling theories and allows them to eclectically use various theories and techniques without losing the consistency and cohesiveness of working within a structure.