The Value in Counseling
28 January 2018
Counseling Skills
In this new age we live in it has become evident that counseling is very much needed. The
world is faced with many dangers arising from individuals, groups, businesses, government, and
religion that different counseling methodology is constantly being improved to meet the challenges that
is readily seen. One counseling methodology that is being applied is the qualitative research approach.
In the 1970’s the qualitative research approach was used to study adult men regrading the theory
of masculine adulthood development. Some authors anticipated that the qualitative research approach
would have a strong impact in helping professions like psychoanalysis, behaviorism, humanism, and
multicultural-feminism did in the past. These theories proved to be worth noting because of their rich
substance each brought to the counseling profession. The qualitative research approach was no
different proving to be useful. “Still, in the 1980s,training programs in counseling were strongly
supported by positivism and, as such, by quantification and experimentation. In view of this state of
affairs, Hoshmand (1989) urged that three elements be incorporated into qualitative research in the
field: (a) the naturalistic-ethnographic, in which the investigation is carried out in natural settings; (b)
the phenomenological, with an emphasis on the meanings of human inner expressions; and (c) the
