Title

Searching for expertise in counseling, psychotherapy, and professional psychology

Department/School

Psychology, Professional

Date of this version

1997

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Suggests 5 blocks to a full utilization of the expertise literature and other constructs in practitioner development. These blocks are: (a) the need to go beyond the cognitive realm to the working alliance for the fundamental construct in the domain, (b) the need to realize that the novice-to-expert path takes a long time—perhaps 15 yrs—to travel; (c) the inappropriate use of a short experience differential in comparative studies of novices and experts; (d) the importance of reflection for development; and (e) the need for professors, in order to be experts, to also be practitioners in the domain.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024798723295

Volume

9

Issue

4

Published in

Educational Psychology Review

Citation/Other Information

Skovholt, T.M., Ronnestad, M. H., & Jennings, L. (1997). Searching for expertise in counseling, psychotherapy, and professional psychology. Educational Psychology Review, 9(4), 361-369. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024798723295

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