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Advantages And Disadvantages Of Assimilative Integration

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Technical eclecticism has the potential to describe detailed changes within the therapy. The changes throughout the process will match the appropriate intervention that helped the client change. With more than one approach, therapists are more likely to get the full understanding of what happen with the client and if the issue being resolves. But, the cons of the factor go back to misjudging/ misdiagnosing the patient from another patient with the same symptoms in the pass (Lampropoulos, 2000). Lampropoulos (2001) address some advantages and disadvantages of assimilative integration. The main advantage allow therapist to practice within their own belief without losing the benefits of the effective techniques in other approaches. Therapist can rearrange their techniques to eliminate frustration and provide the effectiveness techniques to resolve the issue. Also, the continuation of guided practice and research will provide the therapist with the proper knowledge to work with diverse clients. An disadvantage is increasing the number of psychotherapies that would bring more confusion and therapist with unfamiliar knowledge of the appropriate issue (Lampropoulos, 2001). With the theoretical integration, there is more than one approach to use in a given situation. A disadvantage is focusing on one specific disorder than doesn’t correspond with another approach. Being able to use more than one approach within a disorder provides a better understanding of the situation

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