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Journal of counseling psychology, 1954-12, Vol.1 (4), p.264-268
Ort / Verlag
Washington, D.C: Wm. C. Brown Co
Erscheinungsjahr
1954
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The author comments on Cronbach's monograph on social perception,
Processes Affecting "Understanding of Others" and "Assumed Similarity"
(1954) and discusses counseling theory. Cronbach's monograph illustrates the value of algebraic models in building psychological theories. The current author defines theory as a set of rules by which a person creates an ideal state of affairs. Thus defined, a theory may be as complex or as simple, as logical or as illogical, as empirically relevant or irrelevant as its creator chooses to make it. One of the chief obstacles to constructive thinking about theory and the counseling process is the failure to keep in mind that counseling theory, like any other theories, need have no congruence with empirical events. It will come as no surprise that there seems to be no ready solution to the problem of using theory to integrate persons and events involved in the counseling situation. There is simply no substitute for the slow, tedious process of empirical exploration. Yet present attempts to develop theories can be defended. For theory, even in its rude beginnings, can serve to organize the manner in which hypotheses about the counseling process are to be formulated.