Integrative and Eclectic Counselling and Psychotherapy

Stephen Palmer, Ray Woolfe, Stephen Palmer, Ray Woolfe

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 1999
• Print ISBN:
  9780761957997
  9780761957980
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781446230183
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychotherapy
• Index: Psychology

Stephen Palmer is Joint award winner of the Annual Counselling Psychology Award for outstanding professional and scientific contribution to Counselling Psychology in Britain for 2000.

`The editors? support for the integrative project is clear, but the book will hold its own with the sceptics too. I recommend it? - Counselling at Work

This innovative and timely book examines the issues and ideas surrounding integration and eclecticism in a therapeutic context, and provides a detailed account of a wide range of approaches in use.

Following an exploration of the origins of integrative and eclectic processes, 10 approaches are explained in detail. Chapters on each approach: describe its central concepts, assumptions and therapeutic goals; outline its view of how psychological disturbance is acquired, perpetuated and resolved; examine how the theory relates to practice - including examples of typical sessions and case studies; and consider which clients might benefit.

Further chapters explore the implications of using integrative and eclectic approaches for training, supervision, for working in a time-limited context and from a multicultural perspective.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• The Editors
• Notes on Contributors
• Preface
• PART I INTRODUCTION
• 1 Eclecticism/Integration: Historical Developments
• 2 Eclecticism/Integration: Some Key Issues and Research
• PART II THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES
• 3 The Conversational Model
• 4 Integrating Systemic Thinking in Counselling and Psychotherapy
• 5 A Systematic Integrative Relational Model for Counselling and Psychotherapy
• 6 A Relational Approach to Therapy
• 7 Integrated Eclecticism: A Therapeutic Synthesis
• 8 Multimodal Therapy
• 9 Gerard Egan’s Skilled Helper Model
• 10 Problem-Focused Counselling and Psychotherapy
• 11 Cognitive Analytic Therapy
• 12 Eclecticism and Integration in Humanistic Therapy
• PART III ISSUES
• 13 Multicultural Issues in Eclectic and Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy
• 14 Integration and Eclecticism in Brief/Time-Focused Therapy
• 15 Integration and Eclecticism in Supervision
• 16 Integration and Eclecticism in Counselling Training
• 17 Eclectic, Integrative and Integrating Psychotherapy or Beyond Schoolism
• 18 Principles and Practice of a Personal Integration
• 19 The Personal, The Professional and The Basis of Integrative Practice
• Appendix. Exercise: Developing a Personal Integration Ian Horton
• Index