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With his notorious love of the paradox, the English playwright, George Bernard Shaw, commented on specialization by saying that it represented an interest in knowing more and more about fewer and fewer things, with the possible outcome of getting to know everything about nothing. In your opinion, what may be some of the advantages and risks of the current trend towards increased specialization within the counselling profession?

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Jack of all trades and master of none is an old adage. It might soon be uprooted with a new adage that talks about Jack of just one trade and yet not a master of even that one. In spite of having different schools of thought explained through various theories in psychology, most therapists prefer following an eclectic approach. Yet at the ...

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