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Counseling development models have many of the same purposes and address many of the same phenomena as the cognitive science models of expertise. But these two model types have been developed independently and each has drawn only minimally from the other. The purpose of this article is to point out some of the similarities and differences between the model types.
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Sakai, P.S., Nasserbakht, A. Counselor Development and Cognitive Science Models of Expertise: Possible Convergences and Divergences. Educational Psychology Review 9, 353–359 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1024746606456
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