Skill-Based Psychotherapy Integration has a new name...

Multitheoretical Psychotherapy

Integrating Key Strategies from Diverse Theories

Working interactively with clients' thoughts, actions, and feelings...

Within the context of biology, interpersonal patterns, social systems, and cultural contexts.

Multitheoretical Psychotherapy (MTP) is a new method of integrative training and treatment planning developed by Dr. Jeff Brooks-Harris at the Counseling and Student Development Center at the Univeresity of Hawaii at Manoa. Because of its emphasis on integrating psychotherapy strategies in practice, it was originally called Skill-Based Psychotherapy Integration (SBPI; Brooks-Harris & Gavetti, 2001). MTP is organized around this multitheoretical framework:

A MULTITHEORETICAL FRAMEWORK FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY

Theoretical Approaches	Focal Dimensions
Cognitive	Thoughts
Behavioral	Actions
Experiential	Feelings
Psychobiological	Biology
Psychodynamic	Interpersonal Patterns
Systemic	Social Systems
Multicultural	Cultural Contexts

1. INTRODUCTORY HANDOUTS:

Seven Principles for Integrative Psychotherapy

Multidimensional Model of Human Functioning

Multitheoretical Framework for Psychotherapy

Integrative Treatment Planning

Multidimensional Focus Markers

Conducting a Multidimensional Survey

Formulating a Multitheoretical Conceptualization

2. CATALOG OF KEY STRATEGIES:

Cognitive Strategies

Behavioral Strategies

Experiential Strategies

Psychobiological Strategies

Interpersonal-Psychodyanmic Strategies

Systemic-Constructivist Strategies

Multicultural Strategies

3. PRACTICUM HANDBOOK:

Skill-Based Psychotherapy Integration: A Practicum Handbook of Intermediate Microskills
by Jeff E. Brooks-Harris & Michael F. Gavetti (2001)

The entire text of this handbook is available here on the website. This early training manual has descriptions of strategies from five of the seven approaches now included in MTP.

4. TRAINING VIDEOTAPES AVAILABLE FROM MICROTRAING ASSOCIATES :

Cognitive Counseling and Psychotherapy - Advanced Microskills and Strategies I

Behavioral Counseling and Psychotherapy - Advanced Microskills and Strategies II

Experiential Counseling and Psychotherapy - Advanced Microskills and Strategies III

5. INTEGRATIVE TEXT BOOK (In Preparation):

A textbook is currently being prepared for publication by Lahaska Press (Houghton Mifflin / Earlbaum). This book is tentatively titled, Integrative Psychotherapy: A Multitheoretical Approach, and will describe how a multitheoretical approach can be used to plan for intentional integration of diverse psychotherapy strategies.

CONTACT INFO: Jeff Brooks-Harris: jharris@hawaii.edu