Overview
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 integratorIs accessible for the new trainee, while posing questions for discussion and reflection for the more experienced practitionerIntegrates recent thinking and research in psychotherapy, human development and neuroscienceDiscusses how developments in relational approaches impact on integration in practice Addresses integration within humanistic, psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral and existential approachesThis 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.
