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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.
The Conversational Model
The Conversational Model
The Conversational Model integrates psychodynamic, interpersonal and humanistic approaches to therapy. Integration suggests that the elements are part of one combined approach to theory and practice, as opposed to eclecticism which draws ad hoc from several approaches in the approach to a particular case.
This model of therapy was developed by Dr Robert Hobson, Reader in Psychotherapy at the University of Manchester and a former Training Analyst of the Society of Analytical Psychology in London. Drawing on several traditions, it now represents a tradition, which may be termed psychodynamic interpersonal (PI). It is rooted in the psychodynamic concepts of the unconscious or barely conscious underpinnings of relationships, with particular links to Jung. It has been influenced by interpersonal models of ...
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