ERIC Number: EJ840736
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009
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On Displaced Humanists: Counselor Education and the Meaning-Reduction Pendulum
Hansen, James T.
Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development, v48 n1 p65 Spr 2009
Counseling, as have other mental health professions, has undergone regular historical alternations between meaning-based and reductive ideologies of helping. Contemporarily, counseling is participating in a protracted reductionistic phase. This situation has resulted in the marginalization of those in the profession who have humanistic sensibilities. Reasons these displaced humanists should be supported and educational methods to bring about this support are summarized.
Descriptors: Health Occupations, Ideology, Counselor Training, Counseling, Educational Methods, Mental Health, Humanism
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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