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January, 2010 | SAGE Publications Ltd

Integration in Counselling & Psychotherapy

Developing a Personal Approach

Second Edition
Phil Lapworth
- Private Practice
Charlotte Sills
- Metanoia Institute and Ashridge College
200 pages | January, 2010 | SAGE Publications Ltd
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Now in its Second Edition, this book is established reading for any practitioner or trainee wishing to develop their own personal style of working. As well as examining contemporary integrative approaches, the authors show how to develop an individual approach to integrating theories and methods from a range of psychotherapies.

Offering clear strategies for integration rather than a new therapeutic model, this practical new edition:

  • Puts added emphasis on the integrative framework, and procedural strategies, extending discussion of the individual practitioner as integrator
  • Is accessible for the new trainee, while posing questions for discussion and reflection for the more experienced practitioner
  • Integrates recent thinking and research in psychotherapy, human development and neuroscience
  • Discusses how developments in relational approaches impact on integration in practice
  • Addresses integration within humanistic, psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral and existential approaches

This book should be on the desk of every trainee studying integrative counseling and psychotherapy, as well as on the shelves of practitioners wanting to develop their own personal frameworks for therapy.

PART ONE: INTEGRATION: CONTEXT AND CONCEPTS
A Brief History of Integration and Some Recent Developments
Generic Elements of Counselling and Psychotherapy
How to Integrate
PART TWO: AN EXERCISE IN INTEGRATION
Developing a Theory of Human Beings
Developing an Integrative Framework
An Integrative Framework in Practice
PART THREE: OTHER FRAMEWORKS AND PROCEDURES FOR INTEGRATION
The Therapeutic Relationship
Multimodal Therapy
The Comparative Script System
The Seven-Level Model