Abstract
Context and focusThis paper presents a critical evaluation of the relevance and implications of the scientist-practitioner model for counselling psychology. It reviews the history and development of the model and outlines its main features. Support for the model and criticisms of it are considered in order to demonstrate that the model represents a creative tension. This creative tension exists because of a need for counselling psychology to regularly review and question its philosophies, origins, priorities and its practice.ConclusionsThis paper takes the view that the scientist-practitioner model remains the most helpful model for counselling psychology, but that components such as scientific practice, research methods, and integration need to be flexible concepts, open to improvement as a result of discussion, reflection, and experience.
Publisher
British Psychological Society
Subject
Psychiatry and Mental health,Applied Psychology,Clinical Psychology
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