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Difference
between Eclecticism and Integration in Psychotherapy
The
National Institute of Mental Health Workshop have postulated the
differences between integration and eclecticism (Norcross &
Prochasca, 2014):
Technical
eclecticism utilizes procedures from different sources that has
worked best in the past for people with similar problems, without
consider theories or techniques (Lazarus, 1989). This method has
acquired a negative connotation for being disorganized, with no
rationale or empirical verification (Lazarus, 1989).
Theoretical
Integration utilizes two or more psychotherapy systems and their
techniques which were proved to be effective along many years of
research and clinical experience (Norcross & Prochasca, 2014).
Norcross
and Prochaska (1977) identified the most common combinations of
psychotherapies: Behavioral and Cognitive, Cognitive and
Humanistic, Cognitive and Psychoanalytic, Cognitive and
Interpersonal, Cognitive and Systems, Humanistic and
Interpersonal, Interpersonal and Systems, Psychoanalytic and
Systems, Interpersonal and Psychoanalytic, Behavioral and
Interpersonal, Behavioral and Systems, Humanistic and
Psychoanalytic, Behavioral and Humanistic, Behavioral and
Psychoanalytic.
The
theories are combined with the “goal of creating a
theoretical framework which synthesizes the best elements of two
or more approaches to therapy” (Norcross & Prochasca,
2014).
Mrs Glaucia Barbosa, PACFA Reg. Provisional 25212 MCouns, MQCA(Clinical)
References
Prochaska,
J. O, Norcross, J. C. (2014). Systems
of psychotherapy: A transtheoretical analysis.
Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole. Cengage Learning.
Lazarus,
A. A. (1989). The practice of multimodal therapy. Baltimore:
John Hopkins-University Press.
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