Psych 406 Unit 14

Front 1

common factors

Back 1

search for common elements: find the core of counseling practice in what does not change.

Front 2

integrative counselling and psychotherapy

Back 2

counselling approach that blends the theory, techniques, AND/OR common factors of multiple counseling approaches. Most integrative approaches choose only one of those three to guide their eclecticism.

Front 3

syncretism

Back 3

practitioner lacks knowledge and skill in choosing techniques, grabs for anything that seems to work without determining if it's effective.

Front 4

technical eclecticism

Back 4

focus on diffs, choose from many approaches, collect techniques. Use techniques without theory underpinnings.

Front 5

theoretical integration

Back 5

theory creation beyond merely blending technique. Synth best of 2 or more approaches: result should be better than either.