Integrative and Eclectic Counselling and Psychotherapy

`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

Professor Stephen Palmer PhD is an award winning psychologist and psychotherapist. He is Founder Director of the Centre for Stress Management, London. He is the UK's first Visiting Professor of Work Based Learning and Stress Management at Middlesex University. He has authored/edited over 50 books including The Beginner's Guide to Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 2015). He is Co-editor of the European Journal of Counselling Theory, Research and Practice. Currently he is Honorary President of the International Stress Management Association; President of the International Society for Coaching Psychology; Founder Co-Chair of the London Branch of the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies; a Founder Director and Vice President of the Society of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and a Director and Deputy Chair of the Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. His interests include jazz, art and coastal walking.

Part 1 Introduction: eclecticism/integration - historical developments; eclecticism/integration - some key issues and research. Part 2 Therapeutic approaches: the conversational model; integrating systemic thinking in counselling and psychotherapy; a systematic integrative relational model for counselling and psychotherapy; a relational approach to therapy; integrated eclecticism - a therapeutic synthesis; multimodal therapy; Gerard Egan's skilled helper model; problem focused counselling and psychotherapy; cognitive-analytical therapy; eclecticism and integration in humanistic therapy. Part 3 Issues: multi-cultural issues in eclectic and integrative counselling and psychotherapy; integration and eclecticism in brief/time-focused therapy; integration and eclecticism in supervision; integration and eclecticism in counselling; eclectic, integrative and integrating psychotherapy or beyond schoolism; principles and practice of a personal integration; the personal, the professional and the basis of integrative practice.