Postmodern Implications for Theoretical Integration of Counseling Approaches

✍ Scribed by James T. Hansen

• Book ID: 102287452
• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 174 KB
• Volume: 80
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1556-6678
• DOI: 10.1002/j.1556-6678.2002.tb00196.x

✦ Synopsis

Theoretical integration refers to the conceptual unification of diverse counseling approaches. Past attempts at theoretical integration have not yielded a broad conceptual framework that seamlessly integrates counseling approaches with varied foundational assumptions. The author contends that the failure of these integrative attempts is a by‐product of the modernistic epistemic context in which the systems were considered and proposes an examination of common narrative features of counseling approaches in a postmodern epistemic context to achieve integration. These features are specified, elaborated, and conclusions are drawn.