INTEGRATIVE COUNSELLING

Integrative Counselling

Integrative Counselling

Introduction

Integrative counselling refers to the integration in the psychotherapeutic approach of various psychological theories of personality based on the specific needs of each client treatment/ patient needs. In integrative counselling, psychotherapy seeks to promote the integration of personality inside each person in 4 dimensions: behavioural, physiological, psychological and emotional integration and private resources, it's unique, integration as to improve the ability of contact and relationships with the outside world (Faris & Ooijen, 2011).

Further, it is also the part of the principle that primary need of human beings to have a meaningful relationship that covers relational needs that emotional stimulus and thus facilitate healthy psychological structuring is not always possible in certain environments and periods of life, it makes those failures and emotional deprivation affect the development of personality and to surface through various social symptoms, psychological or psychosomatic anchored at various developmental stages in which the loss occurs, or fixing (Culley & Bond, 2011).

Discussion

The integrative counselling was developed by Dr. Hilarion Petzold and is on the European Academy for Psychosocial Health (Culley & Bond, 2011). Integrative therapy combines approaches from the active psychoanalysis, psychodrama, Gestalt therapy, physical and behavioural approaches to a comprehensive process. The integrative approach is used in psychotherapy, social therapy, counselling, supervision or coaching. Paths and goals of the Integrative approach are (Culley & Bond, 2011):

Awareness work: finding meaning and obtaining insight into the causes and consequences of problems and disorders.

Emotional differentiation work.

Activation experience: supporting and promoting the development of personality.

Solidarity experience: experience of social belonging, promoting cultural engagement

Besides the language, can a variety of creative media and forms of expression are used: movement, role play, imagination, dream work, writing, painting, design (Faris & Ooijen, 2011).The integrative counselling is oriented to the use of the therapist-client relationship as basic relational axis that will address the various aspects of personality through different psychotherapeutic lines (Culley & Bond, 2011).

Objectives of Integrative Counselling

The integration of person with himself and his world.

Initially understanding and mutual cooperation in resolving the problem with the establishment of processing contracts (Faris & Ooijen, 2011).

Increased self-esteem through understanding and awareness of the role and alternatives to their problems.

Increasing the capacity to think, decide and autonomy are the ultimate goals of this therapy (Faris & Ooijen, 2011).

Four Paradigms of Integrative Counselling

A global or holistic vision of the human being, conceived as a whole and in relation to all (whether social, environmental, global, spiritual, etc.) (Lapworth & Sills, 2009).

A multidimensional vision of the human being, which can vary: either 3 dimensions based on body, heart and mind or 4 dimensions that includes body, emotional, mental, and spiritual.

A vision of these interdependent dimensions that constantly communicate with each other: emotions can disturb e.g. all other dimensions such as body, mind, spirit, etc.

A hierarchical view considers these dimensions that give meaning to human evolution and at the top of the scale is mindfulness that integrates all other dimensions, while the body is the lowest dimension, without any pejorative sense of that (Lapworth & Sills, ...