The Evolutionary Nature of Counseling and Values

✍ Scribed by LAURA JEANNE MAHER; MICHAEL FORREST MAHER

• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 741 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0160-7960
• DOI: 10.1002/j.2161-007x.1998.tb00412.x

✦ Synopsis

The purpose of this qualitative research study is to discover the evolutionary nature of Counseling and Values, the professional journal of the Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling. The authors used4 recorded telephone interviewsconducted with previous editors of thejournaloverthe last 25 years as the principal source of data. Findings suggest that the evolutionary nature of the journal is characterized by a dynamic tension among 6 interrelated categories of influence. Implications of this research suggest the need for increased collaborative participation in support of professional journals between institutions and sponsoring associations and between diversity in readership and the professional forces that influence publication decision, as well as an increased openness between professional associations and the society that they serve.

This article presents the four previous editors' (Donald A. Biggs, Gerald Pine, Nicholas Colangelo, and M. Harry Daniels) perspectives of the evolutionary nature of Counseling and Values (henceforth "the Journal"). Results presented herein were gleaned from individual telephone interviews with each of the editors. In an effort to solicit spontaneous and honest interactions with those interviewed and to process results as anonymously and fairly as possible, we promised the absence of individual quotation to each of the former editors. Having said that