Research around understanding what works in therapy…
Meet the needs of the person,
Integrative therapy is a progressive and tailored form of therapy that works with the whole person, and meeting the client where they are at.
Collaboration is key in this process, as well as the integration of therapeutic approaches and tools based on the client’s preferences.
Leading research in this field can be found in the work of Mick Cooper and John Norcross, with the idea of therapies being tailored to the individual and not to the constraints of limiting assessments or contextualised schools of thought.
Further details can be found below.
Further reading and research on integrative therapy
Integrative Psychotherapy Works
Zarbo C, Tasca GA, Cattafi F and Compare A (2016) Integrative Psychotherapy Works. Front. Psychol. 6:2021. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.02021
John Norcross on Psychotherapy Research and Integration
Youtube.com. 2016. John Norcross on Psychotherapy Research and Integration in 2016. [online]
Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSQYh4ZZbqA.
A brief, multidimensional measure of clients’ therapy preferences: The Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences (C-NIP). Mick Cooper, John C.Norcross.
Internation Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology, Volume 16, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 87-98, ISSN 1697-2600, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijchp.2015.08.003.
Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1697260015000812