Studia Poradoznawcze/Journal of Counsellogy is an annually journal founded and edited by Naukowe Towarzystwo Poradoznawcze (the Counsellogical Association) in cooperation with the University of Wrocław, and in particular the UNESCO Chair Lifelong Guidance and Counseling, operating since 2013 at the Institute of Pedagogy, and published by the University DSW in Wrocław.
It is a response to the increasingly noticeable growth of interest in issues relating to help provision through counselling and development of various kinds of assistance. It has been called into life as an open forum for the exchange of theoretical thoughts and reflections. It is a space for formulating the conclusions arising from research conducted in and outside Poland. It provides researchers with the space for conducting the interdisciplinary discourse and developing a broad international cooperation. The first editor-in-chief of the journal was Professor Alicja Kargulowa, who created a sub-discipline called counsellogy. She led the editorial team from 2012 to 2022. Since 2022, Dr Violetta Drabik-Podgórna has been editor-in-chief.
With such fusion of the theoretical and the practical in mind, the editors welcome contributions from various social scientists, whose diverse voices and approaches will nuance the counselling debate. Counsellogy will then extend its comprehensive grounding in fundamental premises about human nature and values. Yet, as a social theory focused on people and their intentionality in action, counsellogy can remain a vibrant science only if it generates its own unique representation of human agency in coping, help-seeking and advising. Counsellogy specifically strives to understand individuals’ relations to themselves, other people and the environment, particularly when they cope, advise or use advice (human being as a homo consultans). These are patently dynamic processes. And counsellogy is a dynamically developing theory, constantly modified in the light of new findings, methodological innovations and changes in the social world. Therefore, it is crucial that it collaborate closely with other social sciences and keep up with their conceptual and methodological developments. Hence the editors place such value on state-of-the-art papers from related research fields.
By no means universal laws, regularities that social sciences identify hold true only in particular social ramifications. We can, therefore, count on fresh and diversified views on such familiar, yet still pertinent issues as:
Published: Dec 30, 2022