"My book targets undergraduate, postgraduate, and qualified counsellors. It presents a model of counselling called Integrative Person-Centred Counselling, or "IPC" for short, which teaches how to integrate counselling models with a person-centred foundation. Counselling books and university courses use the name "integrative" often to mean pluralistic or eclectic, rarely (if at all) combining counselling approaches into new and creative models. Some master's and undergraduate courses (e.g. orthampton, MScin Counselling) use an integrative framework made specifically for the course, without teaching the common approaches. Other courses have no underlying theory of integration but teach a variety of counselling approaches (e.g. Northampton MSc in Counselling Children, Warwick, and Roehampton). And some courses have a central counselling approach like person centred or psychodynamic / object relations (E.g. Strathclyde and Birkbeck) with partial reference to other modalities. My book is different in taking person-centred experiential counselling as a frame for the major and most popular counselling modalities, and as such teaches the individual approaches but within a humanistic theory. This is quite different from the courses above and the books on the subject. Each chapter describes the theory and techniques with reference to a specific counselling model, recasting the models theoretically in a humanistic light. The reason this is novel is because the key to integration has been missing or unattended to from within the counselling and psychotherapy field. My method is to take a theory from systemic psychotherapy, called Approach Method Technique"-- Provided by publisher.
A book for counsellors, psychotherapists, and psychologists that combines the most influential schools of therapy into a single person-centred model
Most counselling and psychotherapy books present therapy models as separate and disconnected theories and practices. Integrative Person-Centred Counselling: The combined model of counselling and psychotherapy sketches the family tree of counselling and shows how different psychotherapies come from the same roots. The book argues for the therapeutic relationship as the foundation to all psychotherapies and takes each of the most influential therapy models, from psychoanalysis to cognitive behavioural therapy, attachment theory to family therapy, and combines them into a bigger picture: an integrative person-centred counselling model.
Written by a highly qualified lecturer, author, and psychotherapist, Integrative Person-Centred Counselling: The combined model of counselling and psychotherapy teaches you to integrate therapy models into your practice, including:
- Humanistic and Person-Centred Counselling
- Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Theory
- Jungian Analysis and Attachment Theory
- Object Relations and Existential Psychotherapy
- CBT and Gestalt Therapy
- Systemic Psychotherapy and Family Therapy
Written in clear and succinct language, Integrative Person-Centred Counselling: The combined model of counselling and psychotherapy is an essential reference for therapists and trainees seeking insight into modern integrative psychotherapy and imaginative ways to transform their therapeutic practice.
