Jones And Butman's Psychodynamic Theory Analysis

Jones and Butman (2012) argue that Christian counselors should stand on the fundamentals of the Christian faith. Even as counselors seek to understand the view of persons from other perspectives, their view of persons, identity, health, happiness, brokenness and psychopathology should be based on our Christian worldview. Jones and Butman contend that as Christian we need psychological theories to help broaden our understanding of persons, healing and growth. Thus, Christian counselors need to embrace an eclectic or pluralistic approach in understanding personality development, since no one approach offers a definitive understanding on persons. As noted in previous chapters, the different theories had their strengths, weaknesses, and compatibility and incompatibility with the Christian faith. As a result, these eclectic approaches should first be based in biblical truth, and then incorporated with other psychological approaches to help elaborate our understanding on personality development (Jones & Butman, 2012).
Jones and Butman (2012) also indicate that many practitioners confront the limits of …show more content…
The Rapprochement movement for example seeks to explore common strategies that can be used by all psychotherapists regardless of their theoretical orientations. The balancing movement seeks to determine specific effective treatments that can offered for specific problems to specific individuals, under a proposed set of circumstances. Other paradigms suggest that a combination of strategies might be more effective, for example the combination of CBT, interpersonal approaches and psychopharmacology. In addition, Jones and Butman posit that there are a number of integration approaches such as theoretical integrationism, common factors integration, and assimilation integration, thus, therapists need to determine what integration model works best for