Technologically Enriched and Boundaryless Lives

Time for a Paradigm Upgrade

Bibliographic Data

ID8913707
AuthorsPaul A Gore (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, corresponding author), Wade C Leuwerke (Southern Illinois University Carbondale), John D Krumboltz (Stanford University)
Year2002
Volume30
Issue6
Pages847-857
Publication date2002-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Counseling Psychologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-0000 • E-ISSN: 1552-3861
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/001100002237758
OpenAlexW2128357090
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited19

Computers and other communication technologies have irrevocably changed the nature of work, the workforce, and interpersonal relationships. This article suggests that these changes have resulted in a blurring of the distinction between life roles and an increase in feelings of meaningless and isolation. The authors argue that the dissolution of boundaries between life roles and the emotional sequelae of the digitization of our culture support a paradigm that reintegrates counseling and vocational psychology. Future counseling psychologists will be better equipped to provide services to clients whose lives are enriched and complicated by technology only if counseling psychology educators are able to provide them with the knowledge and skills to do so

Career Counseling · Counseling psychology · Feeling · Interpersonal communication · Isolation (microbiology · Pedagogy · Psychotherapist · Vocational education · Workforce · Applied Psychology · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Psychology · Social Psychology · Technostress in Professional Settings · Work-Family Balance Challenges