Counseling's Inescapable Moral Visions

Christopher, John Chambers

doi:10.1002/j.1556-6676.1996.tb02310.x

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“…This is a dilemma for counselor educators. Some see counseling as an inherently moral and value-oriented profession (Bergin, 1980;Christopher, 1996). Others explain that personal values must not influence one's practice (Strupp, 1980).…”

Section: Joel Thought It Was Important To Bring Up Spirituality With mentioning

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Spirituality in Counseling: What Do Counseling Students Think About It?

Souza

2002

Counseling and Values

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The author discusses students' reactions to 4 seminars. 1‐hour each, on the topic of spirituality in counseling. Students were enrolled in a master's‐level counseling program, Several issues emerged that have implications for the training of counselors on spiritual issues, including students' level of comfort with discussing spiritual issues, the difficulty of defining spirituality, client and counselor readiness to explore spirituality, and training issues in the area of spirituality.

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Section: Joel Thought It Was Important To Bring Up Spirituality With mentioning

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Spirituality in Counseling: What Do Counseling Students Think About It?

Souza

2002

Counseling and Values

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“…Be that as it may, we suggest that all approaches to social inquiry contain not just an understanding of critical thinking but a distinctive, even if implicit, moral vision (Christopher, 1996) and critique of ideology or false values, as well.…”

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Critical thinking in social and psychological inquiry.

Richardson

Slife

2011

Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology

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Yanchar, Slife, and their colleagues have described how mainstream psychology"s notion of critical thinking has largely been conceived of as "scientific analytic reasoning" or "method-centered critical thinking." We extend here their analysis and critique, arguing that some version of the one-sided instrumentalism and confusion about tacit values that characterize scientistic approaches to inquiry also color phenomenological, critical theoretical, and social constructionist viewpoints. We suggest that hermeneutic/dialogical conceptions of inquiry, including the idea of social theory as itself a form of ethically motivated human practice, give a fuller account of critical thinking in the social disciplines. . Part of their conclusion is that psychology has been admirably committed to "scientific analytic reasoning" or "methodcentered critical thinking" involving "the assiduous use of logical and methodological rules in the evaluation of evidence, arguments, and knowledge claims" (Yanchar, Slife, & Warne, 2008, pp. 1-2). As they note, however, this approach may leave many stones unturned. The tendency in mainstream psychology for decades, when this approach does not seem to yield up interesting or convincing results, has been merely to redouble our efforts in refining such rules or applying them more rigorously. 1 1 Of course, if there is some basic flaw in your approach, you will never discover it that way. We might liken this approach to the effort of arguing vociferously one's spouse out of the belief that we are being too argumentative.

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“…This view does not privilege the part (the individual) over the whole (the culture) or vice versa but, rather, attempts to provide a true integration of culture-specific and culture-general approaches. Foster and James (2004) and Christopher (1996Christopher ( , 2001 provide complete explorations of hermeneutics and its applicability to psychotherapy and cultural psychology. In the following text we demonstrate a hermeneutic approach or simultaneously interpreting the part and the whole, in light of the advantages and disadvantages of the two prevailing stances to multicultural counselling.…”

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Culture-General and Culture-Specific Approaches to Counselling: Complementary Stances

Bezanson

James

2007

Int J Adv Counselling

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For the past 40 years, the helping professions have attempted to address the uniqueness of therapeutic relationships that involve clients and counsellors of different cultures. Counselling psychology has been at the forefront in the cultural movement within the helping profession. Approaches utilized by multicultural counsellors can be classified into two basic stances: culture-general and culture-specific. This paper argues that an either/or perspective does not stand to benefit the profession; however, a framework that encompasses the best of both approaches provides the building blocks for a hermeneutic approach to multicultural counselling. The two stances are explained and each is critiqued. The false dichotomy that has evolved within the profession between these two stances is discussed and an argument for focusing research on multiethnic counselling relationships is given. Finally, an integrative approach that privileges hermeneutics is presented.

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Counseling's Inescapable Moral Visions

Cited by 83 publications

References 31 publications

Spirituality in Counseling: What Do Counseling Students Think About It?

Spirituality in Counseling: What Do Counseling Students Think About It?

Critical thinking in social and psychological inquiry.

Culture-General and Culture-Specific Approaches to Counselling: Complementary Stances

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