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Title: Change in Systems: Theory and Implications
Authors: Faye, Gosnell
Supervisor(s): Jerry, Paul (Faculty of Health Disciplines, Graduate Centre for Applied Psychology)
Examining Committee: Chang, Jeff (Internal) Faculty of Health Disciplines/Graduate Centre for Applied Psychology
Doyle, Emily (Internal) Faculty of Health Disciplines/Graduate Centre for Applied Psychology
Thomas, Frank (External) Texas Christian University/College of Education
Degree: Master of Counselling
Department: Faculty of Health Disciplines
Keywords: Change
Systems
Process
Paradigm
Maturana
Autopoiesis
MRI Group
Cybernetic
Reflexive
Recursive
Axiology
Worldview
Culture
Belief
Values
Identity
Roles
Standards
Grounded theory
Analytic induction
Cognition
Psychotherapist
Counsellor
Training
Culture
Interface
Social science
Consensus
Issue Date: 27-Apr-2016
Abstract: Counselling psychologists are being asked, increasingly, to intervene on problems of human functioning that relate to cultural values held by groups, under the banner of social justice. However, counsellor education tends to privilege the dimensions of paradigms that deal with reality and how we can know it (ontology, epistemology, methodology), over the dimension that deals with values (axiology). Using a grounded theory approach to existing texts, this work is an attempt to integrate systemic thinking with recent developments in the social sciences related to change processes. Three questions are addressed: (1) What is the nature of the relationship between self and culture? (2) How is this relationship relevant to issues of systemic change? And (3) What are the implications for the field of counselling psychology? The literature suggests that culturally-situated moral identities are at the interface between self and society, and that these identities impact change processes in systems.
Graduation Date: 2016
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10791/196
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