Integrative Approaches to Counselling/Psychotherapy

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This is the work of a student with specific learning difficulties. Please mark in accordance with the guidelines. Bankole Martins ……………………………………………………………………………………… Tutor Richard Davies ………………………………………………………………………………………. Course: Counselling and Psychotherapy ………………………………………………………………………………………… Subject: Integrative Approaches to Counselling/Psychotherapy ………………………………………………………………………………………… Pages 22 ………………………………………………………………………………………… Word Count: 3024 ………………………………………………………………………………………… S:\SP_NEEDS\Administration\Disability Services\Administration\Forms\SpLD sticker electronic version.doc ‘A critical analysis of the current move towards integration within Counselling / Psychotherapy including an evaluation of two models and incorporating the use of research findings.’ There are several examples of Integration within psychotherapy but within this essay we will only be examining: Theoretical Integration, Technical Eclecticism and Common Factors. (Arkowitz 1989). We will briefly critically analyse these forms of Integration comparing their similarities and differences staring with Theoretical Integration and Technical Eclecticism, and then later briefly outline Common Factors. To support this comparison we will examine and compare two working therapeutic approaches, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and Multi Modal Therapy. CBT will represent Theoretical Integration, and Multi Modal Therapy will represent Technical Eclecticism. Then we will review the drive towards integration and the role that research, and common factors play. In the very early days of Psychotherapy most approaches were very tribalistic and disparaging of other approaches, Feixas and Botella in their 2004 article in the Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, quoted Norcross (1986), suggested that the
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