2008 International Counseling Psychology Conference March 6 Chicago

2008 International Counseling Psychology Conference March 6, Chicago, IL, USA Opening Session keynote panelists

Maria Eduarda Duarte University of Lisbon Faculty of Psychology & Education mecduarte@netcabo. pt

Anticipating the future in Counseling Psychology The state of Art in Portugal • Process of Counseling: individual psychological consulting (social, vocational, academic, personal, dysfunction themes) The “glue” : psychological approach • Training: scientist-practitioner model (Theoretical models: Savickas (2004); Smith (2006); James & Gilliland (2003); Duarte (2006) • Level and Kind of Interventions - Educational, Health, Training, Employment - “Career Guidance and Counseling Services”; Psychotherapy and Counseling Services”; “The National Institute of Employment”

CHALLENGES • Link to other scientists, and close collaboration • • • with practitioners New methodology for research: practice-based networks (Savickas, 2004) Reframe counseling psychology (reduce social inequalities and foster equal opportunities) Reconsider the prevalence of American models in psychological research (a framework for discussing key concerns)

What we can do? • Try harder to make research relevant and • • communicate Try new counseling techniques Re-consider the role of practice --- Conciliate the challenges with what we can do ---

Paths for future research • Construct contextualized models • Face counseling as process of continuous interactions • Use of interventions methods and techniques (from • • • theoretical): self-knowledge and ecological variables Psychological analysis, along with the analysis of cultural contexts Production of inclusive models (based on the construction of plans for life). A psychology for life construction: comprehensive models raised on inclusive constructs, in which differences, psychological and contextual, have to be consider

The Future? • To develop theory (empirically tested and systematically improved) • which identifies, evaluates, specifies and establishes connections Identifies idiographic definitions of success (the meaning of psychological dimensions) • Evaluate adjustments (the relationship of the individual within the context) • Specifies the components of knowledge acquisition (adaptability as a possibility of maintaining the identity) • Establishes connections with the individual and social, political, economic and cultural contexts

Counseling psychology is a psychology for life construction Counseling is a procedure to create a sense of shared citizenship Thank you!

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