Charles Curran

Education

Ohio State University.

Career

Curran received a Doctorate in Psychology from Ohio State University in 1944. As a psychologist and educator, he worked along with Carl Rogers, and took certain principles from person-centered therapy and applied them to the field of education. In 1952, Curran proposed the essential idea of the "Counseling-Learning" approach, or "counselearning".

He incorporated counseling techniques that take into account the students" feelings toward their learning experience, and are meant to lower the affective filter.

In the early 1970s he proposed Community Language Learning as a method based on his approach. His views, which were mostly promoted and tested by his students Paul G. Louisiana Forge (1971) and Taylor (1979), among others, gained particular attention and prominence in the 1990s.

As a priest, he wrote several books in which he addressed the topic of institutionalized religious education, and the theological concept of sin compared to the sense of guilt in psychotherapy. In his writings, he advocated a change in the "approach to the human person" or a "return to a more ancient unified view of man".

Works

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  • Religious values in counseling and psychotherapy,

    (religious)

  • Counseling Learning in a Second Language
  • Personality Factors in Counseling
  • Counseling and psychotherapy: The pursuit of values
  • Counseling and psychotherapy;: The pursuit of values,

Membership

He was a central member of the psychology faculty at Loyola University Chicago, and a counseling specialist.