Discuss position and process as it relates to psychotherapy integration.

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

A therapist who is on an integrationist journey is confronted eventually with the question of whether or not psychotherapy integration is a position, process, or a combination of the two. Therapists who see psychotherapy integration primarily as a position to be arrived at tend to emphasize bringing together two or more theoretical approaches to produce a new integrative theory that stands on its own. Some individuals who advocate that psychotherapy integration is primarily a position may even push for a single paradigm that will define the psychotherapy profession. The average integrationist will take the route of bringing together two or more existing approaches to create new integrative models. This approach to psychotherapy integration is open to criticism because it proliferates therapy approaches, and it does little to eliminate or reduce the number of therapies that already exist. Therapists who view integration as primarily a process view it as a quest that does not end. It is viewed as an ongoing process in a continual state of development and evolution.