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A Response to the Proposed Paradigm: Freedom Runs Through It
Author(s) -
Ottens Allen J.
Publication year - 2011
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.1556-6978.2011.tb01922.x
Subject(s) - paradigm shift , agency (philosophy) , psychology , control (management) , epistemology , academic freedom , engineering ethics , cognitive psychology , cognitive science , social psychology , higher education , computer science , political science , law , artificial intelligence , philosophy , engineering
Freedom, conceived as self‐determination, control, and agency, has been put forth as the central purpose of a paradigm to bring together the specialties of the counseling profession, integrate the many theories, and usher in a wave of potentially powerful techniques from Asian psychologies. It remains to be seen how the foci of the specialties would change, if at all, in this paradigm; however, the unique contributions of each theory may be better appreciated. Research should be undertaken to better understand the efficacy of these new but ancient techniques.