Integrative counselling & psychotherapy : a relational approach / Ariana Faris and Els van Ooijen.

In an accessible and user friendly manner, this book offers a relational and social constructionist framework for the integration of the three most popular counseling and psychotherapy modalities: humanistic, psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral including mindfulness and compassion based approaches. It is a guide to the history of integration in the field of psychotherapy and counseling, the nature of psychotherapeutic integration, different models of integration, what it means to work relationally, working with the Relational-Integrative Model (RIM) for a range of professional issues, including ethics, research, supervision, therapist self-care and personal development. The authors show how their coherent, flexible theoretical model can be used in brief and long-term therapy for a wide range of client issues. Brimming with vivid case examples, mind-maps and therapeutic dialogue, this invaluable book will help develop the theoretical knowledge and skills base of students, trainers and practitioners.