Professor
Department of Educational Counselling and Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS)
Dr. Young is a counselling psychologist whose research focuses the development and application of action theory and the qualitative action-project method to a variety of research topics, including the transition to adulthood, families, vocational psychology, counselling, health, and suicide. He developed and uses both contextual action theory as a framework for human science research and practice and the action-project method as a qualitative research method for researching goal-directed action.
Contributions:
Young, R. A., Valach, L., & Domene, J. F. (2005). The action-project method in counseling psychology. Journal of Counseling Psychology. 52, 215-223.
Young, R.A., Marshall, S.K., Domene, J.F., Graham, M., Logan, L., Zaidman-Zait, A., Mart, A., & Lee, C.M. (2008). Transition to adulthood as a parent-youth project: Governance transfer, career promotion, and relational processes. Journal of Counseling Psychology, 55, 297-307.
Young, R. A., Marshall, S. K., Valach, L., Domene, J. F., Graham, M. D., & Zaidman-Zait, A. (2011). Active transition to adulthood: A new approach for counseling. New York: Springer-Science.
Young, R. A., Marshall, S. K., Foulkes, K., Haber, C., Lee, C. S. M., Penner, C., & Rostram, H. (2011). Counseling for the transition to adulthood as joint, goal-directed action. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 79, 325-333.
Young, R. A., Domene, J. F., & Valach, L. (Eds.) (2015). Counseling and action: Toward life-enhancing work, relationships, and identity. New York: Springer Science+Business Media.
Keywords:
action; counselling; vocational psychology; qualitative research methods; youth; families; suicide.
richard.young@ubc.ca
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