Pay attention to intersecting theoretical orientations!

Hi counseling friends,

As you familiarize yourself with key psychological thinkers, I want to caution you to pay attention to multiple theoretical orientations with which you may associate a single person.

Let’s take Anne Roe, for example.

If you’re further along in your studying process, you may immediately read this gal’s name and associate her with career counseling. One of your classmates may read Anne’s name and think of developmental psychology. Still another may think of personality theory. And then all three of you may take an exam that wants to know about Anne Roe’s affiliation with psychoanalysis. 

^Everyone here is correct.

Anne Roe came out of the psychoanalytic tradition and created a landmark theory of career matching that attends to the individual’s personality characteristics, childhood experiences, environmental context, subconscious mind, and even their Maslow’s needs. 

It’s helpful to have quick associations ready between major theorists and the handful of relevant theoretical orientations that shaped them (or that they themselves shaped). 

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