Counseling and life organization – a transactional conception of reflective counseling

Authors

  • Franz-Christian Schubert

Keywords:

Counseling, life organization, person-environment-interaction, reflexivity, resources, transaction

Abstract

Life is constitutional characterized by the mutual interaction between individual and environment. Nevertheless for explanation of successful or unsuccessful life organization, scientific disciplines tend to put the individual and its psychological functions, traits and behavior patterns or the social structures and conditions into focus in a one-sided way. The adequate comprehension of this coincidence demands a connection of social and human sciences on basic of a transactional, i.e. an ecologic-systematical understanding of science and practice. The paper focuses the process of the individual-environment-interaction as a frame for explaining successful life and the production of life quality and health. From that it derives a conceptual frame for a transactional and reflexively designed counseling.

Author Biography

Franz-Christian Schubert

Prof. Dr., Dipl.-Psych., approbierter Psychotherapeut, emeritierter Professor am Fachbereich Sozialwesen der Hochschule Niederrhein, Krefeld/Mönchengladbach und dort Dozent im Masterstudiengang »Psychosoziale Beratung und Mediation«.Lehre, Forschung und Praxis auf den Gebieten Gesundheitsförderung, Verfahren der Psychotherapie, der psychosozialen Beratung und Konfliktbewältigung. Supervisor und Ausbilder in systemischer Therapie/Beratung, Vorsitzender der Vereinigung von Hochschullehrerinnen und Hochschullehrer zur Förderung von Beratung/Counseling in Forschung und Lehre (VHBC).

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Published

2014-01-01

How to Cite

Schubert, Franz-Christian. 2014. “Counseling and Life Organization – a Transactional Conception of Reflective Counseling”. Journal für Psychologie 22 (2). https://journal-fuer-psychologie.de/article/view/357.

Issue

Vol. 22 No. 2 (2014): Reflexivität in der Beratung

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