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Positivism-plus: A constructivist approach to teaching psychopharmacology to counselors
Teaching counselors and therapists: Constructivist and developmental course design (2001)
  • Cecile Brennan, John Carroll University
  • Elliott R. Ingersoll
Abstract
In this positivism-plus approach, the chemical and neurobiological bases of psychopharmacology constitute a pervasive, positivist construction of a reality that influences client behavior. However, is it argued that this biological version of reality must be integrated into the work of counseling, that is, it must be adapted to the environmental and intrapsychic contexts that clients and counselors co-construct. This chapter reviews the relationships among the medical model, constructivism, and counselor training, describes the general components of the psychopharmacology course, then discusses more specifically the relationship between the positivist and positivist-plus elements
Keywords
  • Positivism-plus,
  • constructivism,
  • teaching psychopharmacology,
  • counselor training
Disciplines
Publication Date
2001
Editor
Karen Eriksen and Garrett McAuliffe
Publisher
Bergins & Garvey
ISBN
0897897951
Citation Information
Cecile Brennan and Elliott R. Ingersoll. "Positivism-plus: A constructivist approach to teaching psychopharmacology to counselors" Westport, CTTeaching counselors and therapists: Constructivist and developmental course design (2001)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/cecile_brennan/5/