Handbook of Psychotherapy Integration

This volume provides, for the first time, a comprehensive, state-of-the-art description of eclecticism/integration and its clinical practices by the leading proponents of the movement. . This volume provides, for the first time, a comprehensive state-of-the-art description of therapeutic integration and its clinical practices by the leading proponents of the movement. After presenting the concepts, history, research, and belief structures of psychotherapy integration, the book considers two exemplars of theoretical integration, technical eclecticism, and common factors. The authors review integrative therapies for specific disorders, including anxiety, depression, and borderline personality disorder, along with integrative treatment modalities, such as combining individual and family therapy and integrating pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. The book concludes with a section on training and a look at future directions. Contemporary psychotherapists have come to realize that, given the complexity of human behavior, no one theory can ever suffice to explain all situations, disorders, and clients. Over the past two decades, the ideological cold war and dogma eat dogma ambiance have abated as clinicians look across and beyond single-school approaches to see what can be learnedand how patients can benefitfrom alternative orientations. This volume provides, for the first time, a comprehensive state-of-the-art description of therapeutic integration and its clinical practices by the leading proponents of the movement. After presenting the concepts, history, research, and belief structures of psychotherapy integration, the book considers two exemplars of theoretical integration, technical eclecticism, and common factors. The authors review integrative therapies for specific disorders, including anxiety, depression, and borderline personality disorder, along with integrative treatment modalities, such as combining individual and family therapy and integrating pharmacotherapy and psychotherapy. The book concludes with a section on training and a look at future directions. Replete with clinical vignettes, this unique handbook will be invaluable to practitioners and researchers alike.

Table of Contents:
Conceptual And Historical Perspectives; Psychotherapy Integration: Setting the Context (John C. Norcross and Cory F. Newman); A History of Psychotherapy Integration (Marvin R. Goldfried and Cory F. Newman); Psychotherapy Outcome Research: Implications for Integrative and Eclectic Therapists (Michael J. Lambert); A Critical Examination of Belief Structures in Integrative and Eclectic Psychotherapy (Stanley B. Messer); Integrative And Eclectic Psychotherapy Models; Eclectic Psychotherapy: A Common Factors Approach (Aol L. Garfield); Integration Through Fundamental Similarities and Useful Differences Among the Schools (Bernard D. Beitman); Multimodal Therapy: Technical Eclecticism with Minimal Integration (Arnold A. Lazarus); Systematic Eclectic Psychotherapy (Larry E. Beutler and Andrs J. Consoli); The Transtheoretical Approach (James O. Prochaska and Carlo C. DiClemente); Cyclical Psychodynamics and Integrative Psychodynamic Therapy (Paul L. Wachtel and Mary K. McKinney); Integrative Psychotherapies For Specific Disorders; Integrative Psychotherapy of the Anxiety Disorders (Barry E. Wolfe); A Common Factors Therapy for Depression (Hal Arkowitz); Integrative Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: Dialectical Behavior Therapy (Kelly Koerner and Marsha M. Linehan); Integrative Treatment Modalities; Differential Therapeutics: Macro and Micro Levels of Treatment Planning (John F. Clarkin, Allen Frances, and Samuel Perry); Integrating Therapeutic Modalities (Larry B. Feldman and Sandra L. Powell); Integrating Pharmacotherapy and Psychotherapy (Bernard D. Beitman, Molly J. Hall, and Burns Woodward); Training And Research Directions; Training in Psychotherapy Integration (John D.W. Andrews, John C. Norcross, and Richard P. Halgin); Core Issues and Future Directions in Psychotherapy Integration (Marvin R. Goldfried, Louis G. Castonguay, and Jeremy D. Safran).