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Document Type: | Artykuł |
Title: | Contemporary Counseling and Its Discontents: A Counselogist on Homo Consultans |
Journal: | Psychology Research |
Authors: | Kargul, Józef |
Keywords: | counseling boom; wilfing; marketization of counseling; counselor’s role changes; search for another human being; dependency on counselors |
Issue Date: | 2014 |
Citation: | Psychology Research, 4(4), 322-327 |
Abstract: | The paper addresses risks and threats inherent in the “counseling boom”, which has affected the actual modes of help provision in guidance/counseling, and generated a unique “counseling fashion” for counseling of various kinds and hence, of various quality. Offering a critical analysis of counseling, the author proposes a few hypotheses about the phenomenon and posits that: (1) Some of the current counseling interventions—also within career counseling—are clearly market-driven; (2) Neoliberal (and post-neoliberal) social policies, as well as stratification of society, have prompted changes in the counselor’s role, who is no longer a creator of unique social services but, with the services having been marketized, has become a “commodity supplier”; and (3) Contemporary homo consultans, falling into the “clutches” of experts, becomes dependent on counselors, who exert power over him/her and appropriate his/her life. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/11479/119 |
ISSN: | 2159-5542 |
Appears in Collections: | WZ DSW w Kłodzku – Publikacje i manuskrypty |
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