PERSONALITY, DEVELOPMENT, AND COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY - DEPTH, AMBIVALENCE, AND ACTUALIZATION

Although there is a profound connection between personality and developmental psychology on the one hand, and counseling psychology, on the other, this relationship has been marked by ambivalence. Reasons for this are discussed and it is suggested that the relationship is moving in the direction of actualization. Four substantive areas are explored in which personality and developmental psychology both inform and are influenced by counseling psychology: career behavior, cultural identity, psychoanalysis, and adult development. Finally, the "healthy personality" is examined as an area of personality and developmental psychology in which counseling psychology has not fulfilled its promise, and the importance and possible directions of such work are discussed.