Toward a Dialectical Approach to Counseling.

Adams, Hal

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Publication Date: 1977

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Toward a Dialectical Approach to Counseling

Adams, Hal

Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 17, 2, 57-67, Spr 77

Wants counseling to include more focus on the dialectical process of personal change. Dialectics, in Lenin's words "reveals the transitory character of everything and in everything...the uninterrupted process of becoming and passing away...." Contradiction, conflict, and ambivalence are affirmed, in this approach, as the essential, unavoidable, and desirable ingredients of growth. (Editor/RK)

Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Concept Formation, Counseling Objectives, Individual Development, Persuasive Discourse, Social Change

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