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Psychotherapy training: A comparative qualitative study on motivational factors and personal background of psychodynamic and cognitive behavioural psychotherapy candidates.
Therapist variables have received growing attention in the context of psychotherapy research. The presented study aims at expanding the knowledge about professional development by examining motives of career choice and choice of therapeutic orientation in psychotherapy candidates. Twenty-four master’s-level psychologists, who had just begun either a cognitive–behavioral (CBT; n = 12, all female, mean age 29.4 years) or psychodynamic (PDT; n = 12, 8 female, 4 male, mean age 31.8 years) therapy training program, were interviewed about their motivation to start training. Participants represented 60% of the PDT and 67% of ...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - March 10, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Psychotherapy training: A comparative qualitative study on motivational factors and personal background of psychodynamic and cognitive behavioural psychotherapy candidates.
Entrenamiendo psicoterapeuta: Un estudio cualitativo comparativo de factores de motivaci ón y experiencias personales de candidatos a terapeutas psicodinámicos y cognitivos-conductuales Las elementos de los terapeutas han recibido una creciente atención en el contexto de la investigación psicoterapéutica. El presente estudio tiene como objetivo ampliar los conocimientos sobre el de sarrollo profesional examinando los motivos de elección de carrera y la elección de la orientación terapéutica en los candidatos de psicoterapia. Veinticuatro psicólogos de maestría, que habían comenzado un programa de terapia cognit...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - March 10, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Safi, Annette; Bents, Hinrich; Dinger, Ulrike; Ehrenthal, Johannes C.; Ackel-Eisnach, Kristina; Herzog, Wolfgang; Schauenburg, Henning; Nikendei, Christoph Source Type: research

“The dual-dialectical conceptualization: A case of Crohn’s disease”:Correction to Navon (2016).
This article describes psychotherapy with a young patient with Crohn’s diseases. The presented psychotherapeutic approach demonstrates the psychotherapeutic application of the dual–dialectical concep tualization to physical illness patients. The dual–dialectical conceptualization is grounded in 3 major rules: duality, contradiction, and complementarity. On the basis of the assumption that patients habitually regard their problems as 1-dimensional and thus tend to become 1-dimensional in a comp letely negative attitude, the dual–dialectical conceptualization suggests a psychotherapeutic process in order to help pati...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - March 6, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: No authorship indicated Source Type: research

Commentary on “Project for a scientific psychiatry: A neurobiologically informed, phasic, hierarchical, brain-based model of integrated psychotherapy”.
Comments on the original article by Kinley and Reyno (see record 2016-10268-008) which proposes a hierarchal model of care. In this model, the authors aspire to use the neurobiological knowledge on dysfunctional neurocircuitry in psychiatric disorders to enhance treatment outcomes and, also, to identify those therapeutic interventions that may account for specific symptom improvement. Here, the reviewer wants to suggest the idea that as we moved from a one-person psychology perspective to a two-person psychology one (Mitchell, 1988), we must move forward to research on the relations between brains (Dikker, Silbert, Hasson,...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - March 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tanzer, Michal Source Type: research

Project for a scientific psychiatry: A neurobiologically informed, phasic, brain-based model of integrated psychotherapy.
In this paper we present a neurobiologically informed model of psychological “stability and growth”’ to address a range of psychopathology. We provide a neuroscientific rationale for a proposed hierarchy of treatment that elucidates the “when, why, and what” of psychotherapeutic interventions based on the modulation, integration, and homeostatic rebalancing of affected subcortical and neural networks. We assert this hierarchical model of care has significant implications for understanding the pathogenesis of mental disorders. Furthermore, we suggest the model may inform prevention efforts that could potentially r...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - March 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kinley, Jacqueline L.; Reyno, Sandra M. Source Type: research

Existential-humanistic therapy and psychotherapy integration: A commentary.
This is a commentary on 5 articles that illustrate some of the very different ways in which clinical practitioners, researchers, and theorists have attempted to integrate aspects of the existential-humanistic orientation into their model and practice of psychotherapy. One paper describes the integration of mindfulness practice with the psychoanalytic concept of mentalizing. These 2 concepts suggest a common factor shared by the 3 major schools of psychotherapy, namely, the acceptance of one’s unwanted internal experience. Three papers describe an integration of some aspects of the existential-humanistic orientation with ...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - March 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Wolfe, Barry E. Source Type: research

Existential-integrative therapy: Foundational implications for integrative practice.
This article provides an overview and case application of the existential-integrative (EI) approach to psychotherapy. I developed the EI approach based on the existential-humanistic work of Rollo May and James Bugental. In the first section of the article, the EI approach is introduced and described with a particular focus on its central and evidence-based principles. In the second section of the article, a therapeutic case is provided to illustrate the principles of the EI approach. In the final section of the article a discussion of the findings is interwoven with a call for greater attention to EI practices among integr...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - March 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Schneider, Kirk J. Source Type: research

Applying goldfried’s concept of assimilative psychotherapy integration: The process of synthesizing existential and cognitive behavioral therapy models.
In the current article, the authors suggest a new avenue for therapy integration by considering an integration of Existential and Cognitive Behavioral therapies. We propose that psychotherapy itself is an existential project and that existential and cognitive–behavioral therapies share many common goals, while differing in methods. An integration of these 2 approaches would enrich the toolkit of clinical methods available to therapists and provide a theoretical framework that balances acceptance and change. Such a framework would include both broad and specific elements, and thus be a more inclusive and holistic reflecti...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - March 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sotskova, Alina; Carey, Tyler; Mak, Brian Source Type: research

Secure your buffers or stare at the sun? Terror management theory and psychotherapy integration.
Terror management theory (TMT) offers an empirical framework to explain how human beings function despite their awareness and fear of death. Research on TMT has shown that to buffer against death anxiety, people strive to meet the standards of their cultural worldview. Although the theoretical bases and experimental findings of TMT research have been compelling within social psychology, their application to mental health and especially to psychotherapy integration has never been properly examined. We argue that a more comprehensive integration of TMT findings with psychotherapy research and practice can prompt a deeper und...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - March 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Major, Rochelle J.; Whelton, William J.; Duff, Carlton T. Source Type: research

A case for integrating values clarification work into cognitive behavioral therapy for social anxiety disorder.
Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is a common and often debilitating psychological disorder. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) has been found to be efficacious in treating SAD, however, barriers to successful treatment still remain. In particular, given the difficulty of engaging clients in anxiety-inducing exposure interventions, it is important to address issues of client motivation in treatment. The current article provides a rationale for incorporating values clarification work from an acceptance and commitment therapy perspective into CBT for SAD. More specifically, it proposes helping clients in CBT for SAD to clarify t...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - March 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Grumet, Robin; Fitzpatrick, Marilyn Source Type: research

Mindfulness mentalizing humanism: A transtheoretical convergence.
This article describes how the 3 major forces of psychology are converging on acknowledgment of the importance of mental processes that engage and subsume unwanted private experiences. Third-generation, mindfulness-based cognitive–behavioral therapists promote mental activities that lead to defusion from unwanted internal experiences. Similarly, in the traditions of relational psychoanalysis and attachment theory, mentalization-based therapists foster a “mentalizing stance” comparable to defusion. Given the long-standing premise among humanistic psychologists that persons are more than their psychological content, th...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - March 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Masterpasqua, Frank Source Type: research

A conqueror by stealth: Introduction to the special issue on humanism, existentialism, and psychotherapy integration.
In the last few decades, the existential-humanistic tradition in psychology—also known as the third force—has taken over the field of clinical psychology. It did so quietly, almost unassumingly, without resorting to monumental political arrangements (“empires”) or bombarding psychologists with decisive messages about the approaches superiority. Evidence as to this “conquest by stealth” abound, and some are noted in this introduction. The purpose of this special issue is to appraise the link between The third force and the psychotherapy integration movement. Five articles touching on the links between humanistic...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - March 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Shahar, Golan; Schiller, Moran Source Type: research

Difficult dialogue between next of kin: A Brazilian perspective on obstacles to integration.
Philosophical differences and lack of a common language are acknowledged hindrances for psychotherapy integration. To identify additional obstacles for psychotherapy integration, the authors employed a grounded theory analysis of 22 clinician interviews on psychotherapy integration obtained from Brazilian therapists from 2 closely related schools of psychotherapy (11 Gestalt therapists, 11 psychodrama therapists). A complex conceptual category “obstacles for integration” emerged from the analysis. Further analysis of this category was undertaken for the purpose of more thoroughly investigating how therapists from these...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - February 24, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Vieira, Érico Douglas; Vandenberghe, Luc Source Type: research

Cognitive attributions in depression: Bridging the gap between research and clinical practice.
Individuals seeking treatment for depression are often struggling with maladaptive cognitions that impact how they view themselves and the world. Research on cognitive attributions that underlie depressed mood focuses on the phenomenon of negative cognitive style, in which depressed people tend to view undesirable occurrences in life as having internal, stable, and global causes. On the basis of research, clinicians have developed various techniques that seek to modify depressive attributions in order to alleviate symptoms of depression. In this article, the authors review the literature on attributions in depression, pres...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - February 24, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rubenstein, Liza M.; Freed, Rachel D.; Shapero, Benjamin G.; Fauber, Robert L.; Alloy, Lauren B. Source Type: research

Psychotherapy for personality disorders: Questions of clinical utility.
Patients with personality disorders (PDs) represent a particular burden for the health system and the clinicians attempting to treat them. The current commentary complements reviews of outcome studies on treatments for PDs by focusing on the clinical utility as defined by the American Psychological Association. As such, extending that notion, clinical utility of a treatment comprises aspects of implementation and training in the model as well as qualities of the therapeutic technique and relationship. Our review suggests that a certain caution needs to be applied when reading outcome studies based on specific methodologica...
Source: Journal of Psychotherapy Integration - February 17, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kramer, Ueli; Levy, Kenneth N. Source Type: research