Integrative Counselling

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Integrative Counselling Psychology In short –one size does not fit all

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Integrative Psychotherapy refers to the process of integrating the personality, taking disowned, unaware, or unresolved aspects of the self and making them part of a cohesive personality, reducing the use of defense mechanisms that inhibit spontaneity and limit flexibility in problem solving and relating to people, and re-engaging the world with full contact. It is the process of making whole. Through integration, it becomes possible for people to face each moment openly and freshly without the protection of a preformed opinion, position, attitude, or expectation. One of the many definitions…

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Integrative Psychotherapy refers to the bringing together of the affective, cognitive, behavioural, and physiological systems within a person with an awareness of the social and spiritual aspects of the systems surrounding the person. These concepts are utilized within a perspective of human development in which each phase of life presents heightened developmental tasks, need sensitivities, crises, and opportunities for new learning. Another way of looking at it…

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Integrative Psychotherapy takes into account many views of human functioning, including psychodynamic, client-centered, behaviourist, cognitive, family therapy, gestalt, Reichian, object relations, psychoanalytic, self-psychology, Gestalt, and transactional analysis approaches are all considered within a dynamic systems perspective. Each provides a partial explanation of behaviour and each is enhanced when selectively integrated with other aspects of the therapist's approach. This is the traditional definiton

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Integrative psychology involves taking each of the approaches and interlocking them in a structure that you have constructed from your knowledge and experience

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Integrative psychology is not always straightforward….

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Therapy skills supervision placement Another model

– qualities of an integrative counselling therapist: 

– qualities of an integrative counselling therapist The drive to pull together all of the potential of the therapeutic universe. a maverick prepared to explore beyond the establishment. a skeptical attitude toward the status quo predisposed toward practicalc considerations as opposed to theoretical doctrines John Norcross initiated the concept of Integrative Psychology as a new discipline “Therapists are encouraged to make intentional choices about combining theories and intervention strategies.”

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We all have many sides to our personalities – the integrative therapist looks for all aspects to work in harmony

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The left brain is meticulous organiser, planner, calculator. The right brain is creative, free-flowing, unstructured artistic We all have these two sides to our brain. Integrative psychology aims for co-ordinated functioning with neither side dominating to the exclusion of the other.

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INTEGRATION IN PROGRESS?)