{"id":2909,"date":"2015-05-20T17:13:11","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T09:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org\/journal\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2015-05-20T17:13:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T09:13:22","slug":"to-escape-to-reflect-and-to-return-a-college-counselors-reflection-on-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appliedpsyj.org.tw\/journal\/?p=2909","title":{"rendered":"To Escape, To Reflect, and To Return: A College Counselor\u2019s Reflection-on-action"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chin-Chen Wen<\/strong>
\nGeneral Education Center\u00a0Tzu Chi University<\/p>\n

This paper was based upon the personal narrative of the author and her reflection upon her dual role work experiences\u2014as a practitioner at the College Student Counseling Center and as a faculty member in charge with teaching and researching loads. After serving at the Student Counseling Center for five years, I quitted my job. But questions lingered in my mind. \u201cWhat exactly happens?\u201d \u201cWhy am I escaping from my job?\u201d Through this reflective study, I hoped that I can renew my strength for action, while at the same time established a new direction for college counseling work. The methodology applied in this paper was a combination of personal narrative and reflection-on-action of action research. The findings include: 1. It is difficult to balance the duties as a faculty and as a counseling practitioner, especially when the universities gradually add more emphasis upon academic research. 2. The ambiguous administrative status of the Student Counseling Center, the instability of the staff, and the ethical problems ensued from dealing with emergent cases all make it difficult for the Center to function in a way it should. 3. A new framework that transforms the Student Counseling Center, which provides the remedial help to one which offers primary preventive programs, is the directive for the future development. College counseling practitioners should not only be licensed psychologist under the Psychologist Act, but they should also formulate a professional association in order to improve their skills and capacity as professionals. Finally, practitioners, also as researchers, are expected to resolve their own practice difficulties and produce the professional knowledge.<\/p>\n

Keywords: college counseling, practitioner, action research, reflection-on-action, narrative, primary preventive program, Psychologist Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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