Social Policy and the Dual-Career Family
Bringing the Social Context Into Counseling
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8913045 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lynn S Walker (0000-0001-9953-1212, Vanderbilt University, corresponding author), Patricia Rozée-Koker (Indiana State University), Barbara Strudler Wallston (Vanderbilt University) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 97-121 |
| Publication date | 1987-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Counseling Psychologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-0000 • E-ISSN: 1552-3861 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0011000087151004 |
| OpenAlex | W2167528333 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 29 |
Although most counselors who work with dual-career families are not involved in formal policy analysis and development, their clients are inevitably affected by a broad array of social policies. Values analysis is presented as a tool for counselors to explore the impact of policies on the family. We argue that predominant social values—independence of families, minimal government intervention, separation of home and workplace, and the sex-typed division of labor—lead to policies that create dilemmas for dual-career families. We present and illustrate a counseling process that traces dual-career family dilemmas to discrepancies between family values and the values underlying social policies that affect the family. An alternative set of values based on community and human development is presented as a framework for evaluating current social policies and guiding the formulation of new policies
Career Counseling · Context (archaeology · Dual (grammatical number · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics · Intervention (counseling · Political science · Public policy · Public relations · Social environment · Social science · Sociology · Applied Psychology · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Counseling Practices and Supervision · Psychological Treatments and Assessments · Psychology · Social Psychology
Work and family in the United States
Here to stay
Family Policy
After Virtue
Reason, Truth and History
Health promotion in the workplace
I Will Follow Him
Happiness in dual-career couples
Making Policies for Children
The place of values in the world of psychology and public policy
Dual-Career Families Re-examined
Child Care and Corporate Productivity
Parent Education and Public Policy
Explorations in family policy
The Dual Career Family
Dual Work Households and Marital Dissolution
Law Partners and Marital Partners
Women's Occupational and Family Achievement in the U. S. Class System
Haven in a heartless world
Meaning and the Moral Sciences (Routledge Revivals)
All Our Children
Approaches to Child and Family Policy
Working Women and Families
The Family and the Professions
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 1992 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |