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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.
A Systematic Integrative Relational Model for Counselling and Psychotherapy
A Systematic Integrative Relational Model for Counselling and Psychotherapy
The systematic integrative relational model of therapy as presented in this chapter is derived from the assumption that each of us has an internal belief system, the ‘core interpersonal schema’ (Beitman, 1992) that is shaped by our unique developmental and family history and our unique responses to these influences. Essentially this is an interactive relational model focused on the interpersonal and intrapsychic dimensions of a person's experience. It is based on an interactive developmental model that stresses the primacy of relationship as a motivational force and as the medium in which core beliefs about self and others are forged.
In therapy the practitioner is actively choosing interpersonal ...
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