Full Description
Using the professional life of psychologist-educator Thomas N. McCarthy as a touchstone, Developing the Whole Person: A Practitioner's Tale of Counseling, College, and the American Promise explores the achievements and difficulties of postwar counseling psychologists and psychologist-administrators in American higher education. They advanced a whole person development model for student life inside and outside the classroom, despite skepticism from faculty and other administrators and the emergence of a potent student freedom model in the late 1960s that insisted students were adults. These two models have persisted in tension with one another ever since.
Contents
List of Figures - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Poverty, Education, and Opportunity - Developing the Whole Person - A College and a Community - Counseling and Community - Competence - Psychologists and the Church - The College and the War - Redefining Community - A Place for Women - We'll Know It When We See It - Students for Individual Rights - The Search - Epilogue - Index.
