The dance of development: An alternate approach--a response to strange bedfellows or cohabitants

Journal/Book: Journal of Employment Counseling. 1978; 15: 113-116.

Abstract: With regard to H. W. Trimmer's (see PA, Vol 63:4007), discussion of the relation between counseling and psychotherapy, the present author develops a model that focuses on the intensity of the intimacy involved in the helping relationships of guidance, counseling, and psychotherapy. The model depicts how the 3 processes are complementary and suggests that they are similar, opposite, and unique. Confusion results when a characteristic is thought of as the exclusive property of a given phenomenon. The 3 fields are seen as being constructed of the same building materials but having different patterns or configurations of variables. In the "dance of development," the 3 areas are similar movements in the choreography of similar music, but differ in the style of holding the partner (the helpee). (12 ref)

Note: theoretical & practical terminology distinction & interrelationship; guidance &/vs counseling &/vs psychotherapy; reaction to H. W. Trimmer's article

Keyword(s): Psychological terminology; psychotherapy ; counseling ; occupational guidance; professional criticism

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