IntegrativeTherapy
Integrativetherapy is a counselling approach that utilizes psychotherapy tobring together different elements. It is characterised by the focuson patients issue from a different perspective. These approachesinclude one the work of Jerome Frank and Sole Garfield on thebehavioural measures of the client. The path mainly focuses onexperimental therapy and the patient’s past behaviour. The secondpath is the technical eclecticism, which is pragmatic and relies onthe experience, and the results are based on the experience from thepast results.
Thethird path is the theoretical integration, which relies on theoriesto give results. It is based on the patient’s experience and theirrelation to the current situation. The last path is known asassimilative integration, which is controversial and maintainstheoretical commitment. It utilises and assimilates the ideas of theother three ways, and comes out with the best results. Hence, theapproach relies on experiences, theories, and behaviour approach.
Recentstudies show that many patients are highly relying on the integrativetherapy, and it has been embraced worldwide and accepted as aneffective counselling therapy [ CITATION Doc12 l 2057 ].Onebenefit of integrative therapy is that the method relies on empiricalevidence to give results to patients. For instance, with technicaleclecticism approach, the psychiatrist relies on patient’sexperience, and thus the results are constructive. Secondly,assimilation integration employs different methods to give resultswhich are efficient and reliable. Lastly, depending on the case ofthe patient, the psychiatric can decide on which path to use.
However,the approach also has drawbacks. For instance, the results given maybe wrong or invalid since its treatment relies on experience.Secondly, it lacks empirical evidence. Lastly, it does not rely onimmediate effects because it is only based on experiences andlong-term changes [ CITATION Doc12 l 2057 ].
REFERENCES
John, D. N. (2012). Interegative Therapy. PSYC 8343: Psychotherapy Interventions II , 1-8