Integration in Counselling & Psychotherapy
Developing a Personal Approach
- Phil Lapworth - Private Practice
- Charlotte Sills - Metanoia Institute and Ashridge College
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.
Integration in Counselling and Psychotherapy is essential to any practising counsellor or student who is interested in working with different models in a coherent way.
This publication takes you through the ideas and process of integration in a step by step way, leaving a clear understanding.
An approachable introduction to what is, if tackled properly, a complex subject.
The book provides a good general discussion of psychotherapy integration. For me though, it narrows the discussion too quickly onto an examination of a particular approach to integration.
Good coverage of approaches, and issues, around integration in counselling. Helpful for students in building their own integrative approach.
As our course is integrative trhis text is sound reading for students, taking them further into the integrative counselling world.
An easily accessible text providing a range of approaches to integration placed within a historical context. A useful textbook for students on courses that explore a range of counselling aproaches alongside a core theoretical model and may assist in shaping students thinking about integration in their own practice. An enjoyable read overall.
At once both personal & informative, pluralisitc and accessible. A delight.
Highly recommended for counselling trainees and those practitioners interested in integrating approaches into a coherent framework.
One of the features I enjoyed most about this book is how it is suitable and provocative for both experienced and beginning therapists. I guess the topic of integration is rather fluid yet structured simultaneously and will be interpreted differently from practitioner, research and theoretical perspectives. Thus lending itself to many hours of thoughtful and insightful reading.
This book gives an excellent overall view of the personal approach to integration in counselling work
New to the 2nd edition:
- Acknowledges developments in the filed since the turn of the millenium
- Integrates recent thinking and research in psychotherapy, human development and neuroscience
- New chapters include 'Building the Integrative Framework' and 'Use of the Integrative Framework'
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Chapter 7 has been expanded to include ideas from a 'relational' perspective to bring in the way recent developments in psychotherapy could impact on integration Further discussion has been included to link the process of integration into core theories (i.e. humanistic, psychodynamic, cognitive behavioural and existential approaches).
