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Historical Perspective of Counseling Psychology
Before 1900
- Sigmund Freud developed a way to talk to patients that were deemed hysterical which he called ‘psychoanalysis’.
- Lightner Witmer started the world's first psychological clinic in 1896.
- The social welfare reform movement (now known as social justice).
1900–1909
- Frank Parsons, often called the founder of guidance, focused his work on growth and prevention.
- Jesse B. Davis was the first person to set up a systematized guidance program in the public schools (Aubrey, 1977; Brewer, 1942).
- Clifford Beers found conditions in mental institutions deplorable and exposed them in his book, A Mind That Found Itself (1908), which became a popular best seller.
1910s
- The first was the 1913 founding of the National Vocational Guidance Association (NVGA), which was the forerunner of the American Counseling Association.
1920s
- A notable event was the certification of counselors in Boston and New York in the mid-1920s.
- A final noteworthy event was Abraham and Hannah Stone’s 1929 establishment of the first marriage and family counseling center in New York City.
1930s
- First theory of counseling, which was formulated by E. G. Williamson
1940s
- Carl Rogers rose to prominence in 1942 with the publication of his book Counseling and Psychotherapy.
1950s
- The establishment of the American Personnel and Guidance Association (APGA);
- The charting of the American School Counselor Association (ASCA);
- The establishment of Division 17(Society of Counseling Psychology) within the American
- Psychological Association (APA);
- The passage of the National Defense Education Act (NDEA); and
- The introduction of new guidance and counseling theories
1960s
- Counseling as a developmental profession.
1980s
- National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC), which was formed in 1982
1990s
- American Counseling Association (ACA).
Reference
PearsonHighered.http://www.pearsonhighered.com/assets/hip/us/hip_us_pearsonhighered/samplechapter/013265797X.pdf (accessed July 8, 2014).
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