INTEGRATIVE COUNSELLING

Integrative Approach to Counselling

Introduction1

Discussion1

Integrative and Eclectic Counselling Approach1

Psychoanalysis Theory2

Person-Centred Theory3

Gestalt Theory4

Therapeutic Strategies7

Interpersonal Approaches8

Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy9

Systems Theory10

Psychodynamic Approach10

Conclusion11

References12

Integrative Approach to Counselling

Introduction

The counselling is a planned and permissive service allowing the individuals to better understand themselves so they can be able to make positive steps in the light of the new approach they want to give their life (Ross, 2012 pp. 351-358). This paper contains analysis of integrative approach to counselling making individuals better towards their lives. This technique follows all the aspects employed for developing an open relationship and permissive understanding of oneself during the treatment process and beyond the trend towards a positive action on its own initiative (Cutts, 2011 p. 38).

The form of psychotherapy and counselling explicitly or implicitly raise the question of resource changes for the client. This may be a state of relaxation, confidence, calmness, and prudence, etc. The idea is to find a resource change (inside or outside the client) and to add this resource to the problematic experience. A number of counselling and psychotherapy theories are discussed in this paper with eclectic approach to counselling, together with the consideration of the Skilled Helper Model and the Skilled Client Model (Shilling, 2012 pp. 5-50).

Discussion

Integrative and Eclectic Counselling Approach

The integrated approach of counselling is an innovative amalgamation of various unique theories and integrated concepts. It incorporates dynamic ideas and techniques fitting the exclusivity of the personality and style of the counsellors. It incorporated the eclectic approach of counselling. Eclectic approach refers to the adequate selection of counselling methods meeting the needs of the individuals aiming at getting better outcomes (McMahon & Patton, 2006 pp. 153-166). It yields effective impacts on the counselling of multicultural clients. Integrative approaches are followed on the basis of different theories while eclectic approach is the implemented nature of counselling selected by the counsellors (using multiple or variant theories) (Gilbert, 2007, pp. 50-80).

Psychoanalysis Theory

The construction of the theoretical model is marked by major works between 1896, 1905, 1914, 1920 and finally 1938 (Eagle, 2010). Generally speaking, psychoanalysis is part of the body of knowledge and practices whose approach is known as theoretical and psychodynamic clinical orientation, like other theories, like those of Pierre Janet, then Carl Gustav Jung, Alfred Adler, etc. Freudian psychoanalysis has theorized a psychological conception of the conflict dynamics of mental life, based on a dualistic view (Eagle, 2010). The Freudian perspective emphasizes to consider the symptom in its dynamic and its own psychological significance (Ross, 2012 pp. 351-358).

In the first Freudian model (first topography) is the economy of unconscious desire, which is considered the engine of mental processes: repression, censorship, compromise between desire and forbidden, etc. This is from the clinic of neurosis that psychoanalytic theory and praxis could be extended to other psychiatric disorders, borderline cases, psychoses that generally need substantial adaptations of the original framework (Ross, 2012 pp. 351-358).

In fact, Freud gave the name of "daydreaming" to imagine a scenario in the waking state, thus, emphasizing the analogy of such a dream with the ...