Issues in Theory and Practice

Older adults are also a group that tends to be largely overlooked. Let's work to understand needs in this group better and to challenge one another to increase in sensitivity to these particular needs.

In addition, this week we will take a closer look at Issues in Theory and Practice                  Ethical practice requires a solid theoretical framework. Counselor's theoretical positions and conceptual views influence how they practice. Ideally, theory helps practitioners make sense of what they hear in counseling sessions.

Issues in Theory and Practice: From an ethical perspective, counselors need to anchor their practices to theory. Without a theoretical foundation, counselors are left with little rationale to formulate therapeutic goal and develop techniques to accomplish these goals. Theories of counseling are based on worldviews, each with its own values, biases, and assumptions of how best to bring about change in the therapeutic process.

Read Chapter 10 in Corey (2014),

Issues for Older Adults: What seems to be working well in the culture and in the church in addressing some of these concerns? What ideas do you have to improve what is being offered, specifically through communities of faith? What are the barriers to such suggestions?