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Ethical orientation — focus on doing and affirming good.
The ethical orientation is embodied in at least two of its sides — in the humanistic approach and the approach of moral duty. The humanistic approach implements a soft, maternal model of love, while the moral duty approach implements a demanding paternal one.
The humanistic approach realizes itself mainly in psychotherapy, in helping people who find themselves in a difficult situation. The humanistic approach avoids teaching, it tends to accept the person as he is and help him along the way of his growth.
The approach of moral duty realizes itself mainly in the synton approach, developmental psychology, in work with healthy people who are ready to set themselves serious life tasks. The approach of moral duty teaches and educates, requires a person to constantly study and develop, sets social tasks for a person, sets moral guidelines and ideals for him. See →
The main choice of a practical psychologist: a psychotherapist or a psychologist-educator
In the field of practical psychology, you can work both as a consultant and as a trainer, while the main choice still remains: are you more of a psychotherapist or more of a teacher? Do you heal or do you teach? Most often today this choice is made in the direction of psychotherapy.
At first, this seems quite romantic: “I will help people in difficult situations,” soon a vision comes that the psychologist-consultant easily turns into a life service employee, hastily repairing rotting specimens.
However, every year there is a growing understanding that it is necessary to move from direct assistance to people with problems to prevention, preventing the appearance of problems. That it is necessary to deal with developmental psychology, that this is precisely the promising direction that will create a new person and a new society. A psychologist must learn to become a teacher. See →
Are psychologists allowed to set pedagogical goals?
It seems that the question is strange, but the answer will be even more unexpected: as long as there is no such permission, as long as psychologists who set pedagogical goals for themselves, educate people, teach people good, put themselves under fire. Pedagogy is saved by the fact that it brings up small children. As soon as we move on to parenting, a series of difficult questions immediately sounds: “Who allowed you to determine where a particular person lives? On what basis do you take upon yourself the right to determine what is bad for a person and what is good? See →