Integrative and Eclectic Counselling and Psychotherapy

Professor Stephen Palmer PhD is an award winning psychologist and psychotherapist. He is Founder Director of the Centre for Stress Management, London. He is the UK's first Visiting Professor of Work Based Learning and Stress Management at Middlesex University. He has authored/edited over 50 books including The Beginner's Guide to Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 2015). He is Co-editor of the European Journal of Counselling Theory, Research and Practice. Currently he is Honorary President of the International Stress Management Association; President of the International Society for Coaching Psychology; Founder Co-Chair of the London Branch of the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies; a Founder Director and Vice President of the Society of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy and a Director and Deputy Chair of the Association for Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy. His interests include jazz, art and coastal walking. Ray Woolfe is a Counselling Psychologist in private practice.

Preface PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Eclecticism/Integration - Henry Hollanders Historical Developments Eclecticism/Integration - Henry Hollanders Some Key Issues and Research PART TWO: THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES The Conversational Model - Jane Martin and Frank Margison Integrating Systemic Thinking in Counselling and Psychotherapy - David Bott A Systematic Integrative Relational Model for Counselling and Psychotherapy - Katherine Murphy and Maria Gilbert A Relational Approach to Therapy - Stephen Paul and Geoff Pelham Integrated Eclecticism - Clare Austen A Therapeutic Synthesis Multimodal Therapy - Stephen Palmer Gerard Egan's Skilled Helper Model - Peter Jenkins Problem Focused Counselling and Psychotherapy - Stephen Palmer and Michael Neenan Cognitive-Analytical Therapy - David Crossley and Mark Stowell-Smith Eclecticism and Integration in Humanistic Therapy - William West PART THREE: ISSUES Multi-Cultural Issues in Eclectic and Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy - Colin Lago and Roy Moodley Integration and Eclecticism in Brief/Time-Focused Therapy - Jenifer Elton Wilson Integration and Eclecticism in Supervision - Val Wosket Integration and Eclecticism in Counselling Training - Mary Connor Eclectic, Integrative and Integrating Psychotherapy or Beyond Schoolism - Petruska Clarkson Principles and Practice of a Personal Integration - Ian Horton The Personal, the Professional and the Basis of Integrative Practice - Rhona Fear and Ray Woolfe

`The editors' support for the integrative project is clear, but the book will hold its own with the sceptics, too. I recommend it' - Counselling at Work