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Self-Awareness Revisited: Reconsidering a Core Value of the Counseling Profession

✍ Scribed by James T. Hansen

Publisher
American Counseling Association
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
117 KB
Volume
87
Category
Article
ISSN
1556-6678

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✦ Synopsis

The construct of self‐awareness is highly valued by the counseling profession. However, the foundational assumptions that support this construct have not been systemically examined and critiqued. The author provides an overview of self‐awareness in light of humanistic, psychoanalytic, and postmodernist ideologies. The author concludes that the construct of self‐awareness should be replaced by self‐storying. Implications of self‐storying for counseling practice are discussed.

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