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Keeping Faith. Edition No. 1
VDM Publishing House, Aug 2008, Pages: 288
This book explores the negotiated nature of
professionalism for counselor-therapists employed
within higher education institutions. Using the
tradition of grounded theorizing, it details the
ways college counselors preserve professional ideals
about service, identity and the nature of their
work, despite managerial challenges to those ideals
or incursions into associated professional
practices. Interviews with over forty American
counselors shed light on individual
professionalization experiences and tactics and
clarify the ways in which counselors are like and
unlike other employed professional workers. The
study offers scholars an empirical, case-based
challenge to the adequacy of current theory in the
sociology of the professions in accounting for the
kind of care work that counselors perform. Its
analysis of how counselors keep faith with their
professional tradition despite contemporary
conditions of employment, offers insight to
counselors, counselor educators and college
counseling administrators about ways to protect core
professional efficacy in those who care for persons
whilst avoiding professional burnout.
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