General Models in the Contemporary Psychotherapy

Overview

Nowadays a theoretical psychotherapeutical thinking develops from the great amount of psychotherapeuticalapproaches and systems, from the eclectic practice and uses particularly the researchof the effective factors of the therapy. They can be characterized as differentiate,synthetic, integrative and as exceeding other approaches. The development in question goes onwith attempts of creating a general model of psychotherapy that could be a basis for models ofspecial psychotherapies, research and practice. The aim of such a model is to describe all that ispresent as important factor for inducing a desirable change of a human in all psychotherapeuticalapproaches and that was succesful in practice. Among general models we can mention thegeneric model of D. E. Orlinski and K. I. Howard, Grawe’s cube (the author is K. Grawe) and theequation of psychotherapy.

Key words:
differentiation and integration in psychotherapy, eclectic approach, effective factorsof therapy, equation of psychotherapy, general model of psychotherapy, quality of life, research inpsychotherapy.