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This module aims to develop knowledge, understanding and critical appreciation of the integrationist project in counselling.  This will include critical examination and evaluation of its origins, history and contexts, along with the comparison of the range of theoretical and pragmatic paradigms which have been advocated as frameworks for integration in counselling. It also aims to facilitate the student in developing, justifying and evaluating the theoretical base of their emergent individual integrative stance. Theoretical and clinical strengths and weaknesses of established integrative models and approaches will be critically evaluated and contemporary areas of debate and development examined with particular reference to their evidence base.

Content will include:

Theories of integration-

Syncretism, technical eclecticism and integration

Philosophical and theoretical compatibility of purist models

Modern, post-modern and emergent post-postmodern perspectives 

Meta-psychology of integration

Practical approaches-

Multimodal therapy

Cognitive analytic therapy

Cognitive psychodynamics

Attachment narrative therapy

Systemic-object relations integration

Trans-theoretical model

Developmental-relational models

A student passing this module should be able to:

1. appreciate, and articulate knowledge, understanding and critical evaluation of, the breadth and diversity of perspectives on the theory and practice of counselling.
2. demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of the origins and history of the integrationist project in counselling;
3. demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of the key theoretical and pragmatic paradigms which have been applied to the task of developing integrative models in counselling and distinguish between the various purist and integrative paradigms on the basis of their assumptions, epistemology, philosophies and research evaluation
4. appreciate some of the critical issues in developing coherent evidence-based integrative models drawing upon the relevant research base.
5. demonstrate the capacity to critically and reflectively evaluate extant and novel theoretical approaches to the theory of counselling integration
6. describe, justify, apply and critically discuss the theoretical base for an emergent personal model of evidence-based and reflectively informed integrative theory and practice.

The Library Catalogue contains full details of the current reading list for this module. Further details may also be found in the Module Guide.