Counseling and the Self‐Organization Paradigm

Caple, Richard B.

doi:10.1002/j.1556-6676.1985.tb01065.x

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“…Recent applications of dissipative structure theory to human, living systems characterize the course of human development as not necessarily smooth, but rather an ongoing process of organization, disorganization, and reorganization (cf. Caple, 1985;Ford, 1987;Guidano, 1987;Sinnott, 1989).…”

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First‐ and Second‐Order Change: Implications for Rationalist and Constructivist Cognitive Therapies

Lyddon

1990

Jour of Counseling & Develop

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Inquiry into the nature and process of change is fundamental to the domains of counseling and psychotherapy. Particularly relevant to counselors is an understanding of the distinction between first‐ and second‐order change. This article clarifies the distinction and suggests a relationship between these two types of change and Mahoney's (1988) recent metatheoretical contrast between rationalist and constructivist approaches to counseling. Specifically, it is proposed that rationalist approaches are guided by first‐order assumptions about change whereas constructivist approaches are based on second‐order principles and processes. Within this context, a number of implications for the counseling practitioner are discussed.

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Section: Developmental and Systems Perspectivesmentioning

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First‐ and Second‐Order Change: Implications for Rationalist and Constructivist Cognitive Therapies

Lyddon

1990

Jour of Counseling & Develop

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“…Autopoietic systems are self-referential and structure determined, and are contrasted with allopoietic systems which function according to forces outside of themselves. Caple (1985) claims that all living systems are autopoietic. Maturana and Varela (1987) are classic autopoietic theorists whose work has been foundational to much of the constructivist thought in counselling and counselling psychology.…”

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“…There is much confusion in the counselling literature about autopoiesis, Many theorists talk about it (e.g., Caple, 1985;Kuh, 1987;Ford, 1987;Mahoney, 1991), but few have radically examined its foundations. Once its foundations have been radically examined, it is difficult to understand why this approach is even considered contextual, or how this is an improvement over more traditional models.…”

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Context and individualism: Critical issues for contextualist counsellors

Thomas

1997

Int J Adv Counselling

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Constructivist and interactionist models have been heralded as part of a new contextualist trend for counselling. They were developed in reaction to traditional organismic agestage theories of development ~vhich neglected important environmental influences. This paper will show that these new approaches are limited in the same way that the earlier developmental theories are: that they absolve and discourage looking at destructive social circumstances and arrangements that lead to problems that get defined in individualistic terms. Thoughtful attention to the concepts of "context" and "individualism" is essential to establishing the criteria that a more adequate contextual theory must satisfy.Counsellors' remedial and preventive efforts in assisting individuals throughout the life course are informed by their most basic assumptions about the normal ways in which human beings develop. At their best, counsellors serve as advocates for students, teachers, and families; and as systems consultants, by helping to facilitate the positive development of students in educational settings. But counsellors realize this potential all too rarely. Why? Because inadequate theoretical assumptions inform how decisions are made, often unreflectively, about which programmatic initiatives are advanced in schools and how they are applied. Developmental discourse classifies, orders, and organizes stages of growth and defines what is "healthy" development and what is "pathological". Theory provides an interpretive template which frames how counsellors view children and determines subsequent interventions. However, many of the theories that have dominated the counselling profession have implicitly reduced socially produced problems to "private troubles" within individuals; they have tended to neglect or obscure the importance of context in the shaping of the life course.Of course, traditional organismic "age-stage" theories have often been criticized by sociologists, psychologists, and human development theorists for assuming that the course and timing of human development are universal

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“…The notion of self-organization via dissipative structure theory has become a significant feature associated with emergent views of psychotherapeutic change-in particular, constructivist portrayals of humans as active, self-construing, open and developing systems (Guidano, 1987;Mahoney, in press). Caple (1985) has recently outlined several implications of the self-organizational paradigm for counseling and psychotherapy. Most notably, he suggests that the concept of "order through fluctuation" leads to a new conceptualization of the experience of disorder, disequilibrium, or distress as a "natural" organismic phenomenon that plays a vital role in personal development and transformation.…”

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“…In philosophy, the British empiricist philosophers (Locke, Berkeley, and Hume) are most closely aligned with mechanism, in that they postulated the existence of separate ideas that become linked together by the process of association. The Newtonian paradigm, which dominated scientific thought for decades, is an example of an attempt to understand the physical world from a mechanistic frame of reference (Caple, 1985;Capra, 1982).…”

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Root Metaphor Theory: A Philosophical Framework for Counseling and Psychotherapy

Lyddon

1989

Jour of Counseling & Develop

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By exploring alternative worldviews or philosophical frames of reference, counselors can look beyond their own encapsulated images of reality and examine different assumptions concerning the nature of psychological phenomena and the process of change. The present article offers an overview of the root metaphors and philosophical assumptions associated with formism, mechanism, contextualism, and organicism—the four worldviews described in Pepper's (1942) philosophical treatise and his presentation of root metaphor theory. Recent and historical trends of development in counseling theory and practice are examined within the context of Pepper's metaphilosophical system.

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Counseling and the Self‐Organization Paradigm

Cited by 13 publications

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First‐ and Second‐Order Change: Implications for Rationalist and Constructivist Cognitive Therapies

First‐ and Second‐Order Change: Implications for Rationalist and Constructivist Cognitive Therapies

Context and individualism: Critical issues for contextualist counsellors

Root Metaphor Theory: A Philosophical Framework for Counseling and Psychotherapy

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