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Counseling Theories Within a Postmodernist Epistemology: New Roles for Theories in Counseling Practice

✍ Scribed by James T. Hansen

Publisher
American Counseling Association
Year
2006
Tongue
English
Weight
81 KB
Volume
84
Category
Article
ISSN
1556-6678

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✦ Synopsis

Counseling theories have traditionally been considered within a modernist epistemology. Reconsidering theories from a postmodern vantage point opens up new possibilities for theory utilization in the counseling process. The author discusses 3 of these possibilities—theories as narrative structures, theoretical truth redefined as pragmatic utility, and egalitarianism in the counseling relationship—along with their implications for counseling practice.

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