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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Mark McMinn and Clark Campbell present a new integrative model of psychotherapy that is grounded in Christian biblical and theological teaching and in a critical and constructive engagement with contemporary psychology. The authors provide both theoretical analysis and also practical guidance for the practitioner.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

Counseling MA perspective April 25, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Drs. McMinn and Campbell have created a meaningful and comprehensive review on how to implement and recognize a theoretical and theological core in psychotherapy. The book includes useful charts, tables, vignettes, and personal disclosures that make the content all the more accessible and meaningful. This book is my favorite of the 45-50 books I have read in my graduate studies.

5 out of 5 stars

Integrative Psychotherapy: An undergraduate perspective. December 12, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

This reviewer, a senior undergraduate student at a secular institution, found the multifarious incorporation of theological and theoretical dimensions by Integrative Psychotherapy to represent an earnest and intelligent discourse over a pragmatic approach to therapy. Expressly, IP is intended for Christian therapist/counselors whose therapeutic bent rests along the middle of the integrative continuum - between complete secularism and Biblical counseling - and, I feel, lays an optimistic and informed framework for theoretical integration. In fact, many among my cohort were inspired to begin reconciling their feelings of cognitive dissonance as regards theology and theory; this approach truly provided insight into a comprehensive psychotherapy. My recommendation is to peruse this book, not as a text deemed sacrosanct, but rather as an encouraging and practical compass to guide the future directions of integrative interventions.

1 out of 5 stars

IP or not IP: The need for relationships in therapy December 3, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful

I was expecting much from IP - McMinn & Campbell's attempt at providing a step toward a comprehensive Christian approach to psychotherapy. The basic tenets of IP are based on solid anthropological distinctions along functional, structural and relational dimensions. These dimensions form the major domains of intervention for IP. The authors critique a non-Christian CBT approach in being inadequate to address the functional and structural dimensions. They then proceed to develop a "relational" dimension that is the deepest, most significant dimension of healing. This is where the authors struggled the most. Their critique and extension of CBT is excellent. However, they turn to more psychodynamic models of relationships and therapeutic interventions. They fail to discern or develop a Christian model of relationships either based on the Bible or theology. As a marriage and family therapist in California, I found the relationship model offered to lack theological significance or theoretical impact. For example, Shults & Sandage (Transforming Spirituality) and Balswick & Balswick (A Model of Marriage) offer more compelling theorizing on relationships based on Bowen's Natural Systems Theory. Therefore, I would look elsewhere for an integrative model based on relationships.

5 out of 5 stars

Fresh new perspective September 25, 2007
5 out of 7 found this review helpful

I was excited to read IP because it contained what I wanted as a therapist. In my opinion, CBT and relational theories are useful but incomplete. IP incorporates these models into a coherant therapy system founded on a holistic Christian view of the person while avoiding the syncretism that is all too prevalent in our community. IP leaves the mysteries of creation in place and invents an intuitive, pragmatic system to explain the rest. I am excited to see the effects of this book on the therapy community.

3 out of 5 stars

Conflicted August 30, 2007
3 out of 6 found this review helpful

I've got conflicting reactions to this text. On one hand, its a great effort toward a comprehensive Christian theoretical orientation, something which is currently lacking. On the other hand, it dismissively makes a straw man out of contemporary cognitive therapy. This surprised me because I perceived McMinn to be an advocate of cognitive therapy based on some of his earlier work. If you are an interpersonal Christian therapist, you'll probably like this text. If you are a CBT Christian therapist, it probably won't be as helpful with integration as you were hoping for.