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Author Blocher, Donald H.

Title The evolution of counseling psychology / Donald H. Blocher
Published New York : Springer, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 343 pages) : portraits
Contents List of Figures; Preface; Introduction; Part I: In the Beginning; Part II: Traditions, Traditions, Traditions; Part III: From Here to Uncertainty; Epilogue; Appendix A: The Expansion of Counseling Psychology; Appendix B: Markers and Milestones in the Evolution of Counseling Psychology; Name Index; Subject Index
Summary This volume provides a clear and readable history of the development of psychological thought in the field of counseling psychology. The author traces the origins of counseling psychology in the Guidance Movement and the influence of humanitarian concerns from the Progressive Era. He describes rofessionalization of the field as well as the long search for professional identity and the influence of the burgeoning practice of psychotherapy. The seminal ideas of the four great traditions that have shaped the field are described: the trait and factor tradition, the developmental tradition, the hum
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Counseling -- United States -- History
Psychology -- United States -- History
Counseling -- history
Psychology, Clinical -- history
PSYCHOLOGY -- Psychotherapy -- Counseling.
Counseling
Psychology
Counseling.
Psychotherapie.
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780826116680
082611668X
9780826113481
0826113486