Learning Processes in the Professional Development of Mental Health Counselors: Knowledge Restructuring and Illness Script Formation

Autor/inn/en	Strasser, Josef; Gruber, Hans
Titel	Learning Processes in the Professional Development of Mental Health Counselors: Knowledge Restructuring and Illness Script Formation
Quelle	In: Advances in Health Sciences Education, 20 (2015) 2, S.515-530 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1382-4996
DOI	10.1007/s10459-014-9545-1
Schlagwörter	Learning Processes; Professional Development; Counselors; Mental Health; Expertise; Cognitive Structures; Protocol Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Learning process; Lernprozess; Counselor; Counsellor; Counsellors; Berater; Psychohygiene; Expert appraisal; Cognitive structure; Kognitive Struktur
Abstract	An important part of learning processes in the professional development of counselors is the integration of declarative knowledge and professional experience. It was investigated in-how-far mental health counselors at different levels of expertise (experts, intermediates, novices) differ in their availability of experience-based knowledge structures. Participants were prompted with 20 client problems. They had to explain those problems, the explanations were analyzed using think-aloud protocols. The results show that experts' knowledge is organized in script-like structures that integrate declarative knowledge and professional experience and help experts in accessing relevant information about cases. Novices revealed less integrated knowledge structures. It is concluded that knowledge restructuring and illness script formation are crucial parts of the professional learning of counselors. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01