- Title
- Looking back to move forward: a scoping review of counselling psychology in South Africa
- Creator
- Haine, Phillipa
- Creator
- Young, Charles S
- Creator
- Booysen, Duane D
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date Issued
- 2023
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/454106
- Identifier
- vital:75310
- Identifier
- xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1177/00812463221091433"
- Description
- Despite that counselling psychologists represent a substantial group of registered psychologists in South Africa, literature specifically on the sub-speciality within the country is limited. The aim of this scoping review was to provide a comprehensive summary of the literature available on counselling psychology in South Africa and examine the extent to which literature is available from a lifespan or career-stage perspective. Three electronic databases (EBSCOhost, Sabinet®, and PubMed) were searched for articles published between 2000 and 2021. Titles and abstracts were reviewed, and data extracted and synthesised thematically. Of 507 citations identified, 10 met the inclusion criteria. Findings indicate that literature on counselling psychology in South Africa is scarce, subject to methodological limitations, and dominated by a small number of authors conducting multiple analyses on the same sets of data. Furthermore, literature on counselling psychologists at key career stages across the professional lifespan is largely missing from the professional discourse. Emphasis is instead placed on counselling psychology as embedded in the sociopolitical history of South Africa, professional identity, the contemporary status of the profession, professional threats and challenges, and the profession’s future promise. Our review highlights the need for more empirically informed studies making use of different methodologies, involving multiple authors with diverse backgrounds, tracking employment trends, and soliciting first-person accounts of counselling psychologist’s experiences at key career stages. Without doing so, ideas about how best to support and utilise this particular group of practitioners may be misguided, in turn compromising the successful provision of mental health care within the country.
- Format
- computer
- Format
- online resource
- Format
- application/pdf
- Format
- 1 online resource (12 pages)
- Format
- Publisher
- SAGE
- Language
- English
- Relation
- South African Journal of Psychology
- Relation
- Haine, P., Young, C. and Booysen, D.D., 2023. Looking back to move forward: a scoping review of counselling psychology in South Africa. South African journal of psychology, 53(1), pp.32-43
- Relation
- South African Journal of Psychology volume 53 number 1 p. 32 2023 2078-8208
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- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Sage Journals Terms and Conditions Statement (https://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/terms-of-use)
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- Closed Access
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