Should Counseling Be Considered a Health Care Profession? Critical Thoughts on the Transition to a Health Care Ideology

✍ Scribed by James T. Hansen

• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 114 KB
• Volume: 85
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1556-6678
• DOI: 10.1002/j.1556-6678.2007.tb00476.x

✦ Synopsis

The counseling profession has increasingly identified with health care ideology. The logical justifications for this transition are critically examined. Ideological and practical consequences of the health care transition are also considered. The author concludes that the usual ways of justifying the transition to health care are insufficient and that this transition has generally had negative consequences for the counseling profession.