WHAT IS PSYCHOTHERAPY INTEGRATION?Maurice Prout

Introduction Maurice Prout is a professor and director at Widener

University in Pennsylvania, where one of the specific areas he has focused on for many years is cognitive-behavioral theory. Maurice Prout also belongs to the the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI). Psychotherapy Integration seeks to take bits and pieces from many different theoretical approaches to understanding and treating mental health and combine them, in order to create a more efficient means of helping people. 

Psychotherapy Integration seeks an open-ended approach to treating various disorders, instead of relying on a single-school approach to therapy.

Psychotherapy Integration While different pathways are taken to recovery, certain

steps stay the same - for example, a patient still needs to talk about their difficulties, and must attempt to confront their problems, but they can do this in different ways. 

One common practice is called Assimilation Integration, which involves using one proven method of therapy, while also including elements of other therapeutic techniques. One style of therapy cannot fit every patient, which is why this approach is so valuable. SEPI is just one example of an organization that brings researchers and therapists together to refine the craft of helping people with mental health issues.