Context and individualism: Critical issues for contextualist counsellors |
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| Authors: | Sydney Carroll Thomas |
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| Institution: | (1) College of Education, University of Maine, 04469-5766 Orono, Maine, U.S.A. |
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| Abstract: | Constructivist and interactionist models have been heralded as part of a new contextualist trend for counselling. They were developed in reaction to traditional organismic agestage theories of development which neglected important environmental influences. This paper will show that these new approaches are limited in the same way that the earlier developmental theories are: that they absolve and discourage looking at destructive social circumstances and arrangements that lead to problems that get defined in individualistic terms. Thoughtful attention to the concepts of  context and individualism is essential to establishing the criteria that a more adequate contextual theory must satisfy. |
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