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Talking About Counseling: A Plea to Return to Humanistic Language
Author(s) -
HANSEN JAMES T.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the journal of humanistic counseling
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.593
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2161-1939
pISSN - 2159-0311
DOI - 10.1002/j.2161-1939.2014.00047.x
Subject(s) - plea , humanism , humanistic psychology , linguistics , psychology , process (computing) , sociology , epistemology , pedagogy , computer science , philosophy , political science , law , operating system
Multiple linguistic systems have emerged to describe the counseling process. In contemporary mental health culture, humanistic lexicons have generally been displaced by technical, experience‐removed descriptors. The author argues that humanistic language should be adopted by counselors because it has far greater utility than technical linguistic systems for describing counseling processes.