Practice and the Human Sciences - The Case for a Judgment-Based Practice of Care

Argues that the technical model of practice has limited applicability for the practices of care (teaching, nursing, social work, and psychotherapy).

About the author

Donald E. Polkinghorne is Emeritus Professor and Chair of Counseling Psychology at the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Methodology for the Human Sciences: Systems of Inquiry and Narrative Knowing and the Human Sciences, both also published by SUNY Press.

Product details

• Authors: Donald Polkinghorne, Donald E Polkinghorne, Donald E. Polkinghorne, Polkinghorne Donald E.
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.08.2004
• EAN: 9780791462003
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-6200-3
• No. of pages: 231
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 6 mm
• Series: SUNY Series in Philosophy; Suny the Philosophy of the Soc; SUNY series in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Counseling, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Social welfare & social services, Psychotherapy: counselling, Social welfare and social services