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The Debunking Exercise: Teaching Research Experientially in Pastoral Care and Counseling

One of the more perplexing problems which confronts the teacher of pastoral care and counseling is how to teach students about research. This problem is usually compounded by the heterogeneity of students in a given class. While some students may be planning more advanced study in research, others may not. Many students regard learning about research as a necessary evil at best, basically unrelated to the more popular and seemingly more applied issues of psychopathology, psychotherapy, personality theory, and so on. Furthermore, some students view research as a highly specialized activity, reserved for bespectacled scientists tucked away in a laboratory. Perhaps, then, one reason students resist learning about principles of experimentation is because they perceive the study of research as being basically unrelated to their own personal, immediate experience and needs.