INTEGRATED APPROACH TO COUNSELLING PROCESS 2022

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Integrated Approach to Counselling
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Personal professional integrated approach to counselling...............................................................2
Reflect on one’s own emerging approach to integrative practice....................................................3
Arguments in favor of maintaining a balance between personal and professional aspects in
integrative counselling.................................................................................................................4
Arguments against of maintaining a balance between personal and professional aspects in
integrative counselling.................................................................................................................6
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
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Introduction
The field of counselling provides an opportunity to the individuals of the society to seek
professional help with any kind of mental disturbance that they might be facing. The mental
well-being of a person is considered to be paramount for the maintenance of a healthy life
(Corey, 2019). In this respect, there is a general consensus among the individuals of the society
that those activities should be followed or executed by them which provides them the mental
peace. However, in the real life scenario, this is not the case. The individuals of the society are
required to undergo various situations and phenomenon which makes them susceptible to waves
of mental depression, at times, which they are unable to resolve by themselves (Corey, 2016). In
this context, the role of a professional counselor comes in to the picture. A professional
counselor has the important obligation of providing the necessary care and attention to the
concerned patient so that they are able to resolve any of their mental doubts (Norcross &
Goldfried, 2019). The purpose of this paper is to understand the personal professional integrated
approach to counselling. In this regard, the one ethical constraints which is faced by a counselor
during the usage of an integrated approach has been examined in this paper.
Personal professional integrated approach to counselling
Integrative counselling signals a combined approach used in the field of psychotherapy. It
indicates the combination of various elements of the different specific therapies which are used
in their individual aspects within counselling (Zarbo et al., 2016). An integrative therapist is of
the opinion that there is no specific single approach which would be able to treat a particular
client. Instead, each of the individuals of the society, who are in need of counseling, should be
treated as a whole person and the various counseling techniques should be molded and tailored to

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their individual demands and needs, as the circumstances deem (Stamoulos et al., 2016). Thus, in
the field of integrative counseling, the various therapies are combined and intermingled to find
out one specific therapy which would be able to resolve the issues faced by the concerned
individual.
The sector of integrative counseling has maintained the opinion that there are diverse
ways in which the human psychology can be examined and explored (Goldfried, 2019). There is
no one specific theory or therapy of psychology which holds the right answer. Every theory of
psychology is considered to have significant value even in the face of rejection by their
foundational principle. This arises the need to integrate them and get the benefits from each of
them (Rihacek & Roubal, 2017).
A specific characteristic of integrative counseling is that it consist of the infusion of the
personality of the individual and their needs. Thus, there is integration of their behavioral,
physiology, affective and cognitive system of the individual (Ivey, Ivey & Zalaquett, 2017). It
also addresses the spiritual and the social issues which are faced by the concerned patient. The
integrative counselors are not concerned with the technique that works, they are more concerned
with why that particular technique works for the particular patient (Hayden, 2019). Thus, there is
more emphasis on the personality and the problem faced by the individual sitting in front of the
counselor than focusing more on the therapeutic approach.
Reflect on one’s own emerging approach to integrative practice
Integrative counselling includes many values within itself which is that of the working
relationship, the therapeutic relationship and the utilization of the appropriate approaches and
theories which would be able to cater to the needs and demands of the client (Jones-Smith,