Studies in Clinical Integrative Psychotherapy
What is Clinical Integrative Psychotherapy
It refers to a dynamic curriculum in modern psychotherapy that covers the widest range of therapeutic needs of people seeking psychotherapy care nowadays. It combines the knowledge and skills of applied psychology (psychometrics, psychodiagnostics, psychopathology) and Psychotherapy (specialized psychotherapy models such as DBT, ACT, Schema Therapy, EFT).
Graduates acquire all the necessary equipment to respond with great efficiency to the psychotherapeutic needs of persons suffering from clinical problems such as addictions, depression, pathological stress, phobias, psychosomatic problems, psychogenic eating disorders, interpersonal difficulties, neurodevelopmental disorders.
The Clinical Integrative Psychotherapist is a specialized scientist fully equipped and trained to work in psychiatric clinics, hospitals, clinical and counseling centers, mental health institutions, addiction rehab centers, child and adolescent mental health institutions, prisons’ mental health clinics, psychodiagnostic centers.
The Clinical Integrative Psychotherapist upon graduation may work freelance on its own office or collaborate with other mental health professionals to provide health care services to individuals, couples, families and groups.
To date, two Professional Retraining Programs in Clinical Integrative Psychotherapy have been submitted to the Hellenic Regional Network of SEPI .
The first Professional Training Program was submitted by the Cyprus Institute of Psychotherapy and according to the data provided it is a professional study program which was first launched in 2009 in collaboration with the European Institute of Integrative Psychiatry, and the scientific supervision of dearly departed professor Peter J. Hawkins.
The second Professional Retraining Program was submitted by the Institute of Psychology and Psychotherapy of Greece and Cyprus. The I.P.P.G.C. is referred to a partnership among scientists from Greece and Cyprus, with many years of experience and distinctions in the field of psychotherapy, psychometric, and psychopathology. This program was established to serve mainly students residing in Greece. It was mainly organized to run hybrid (both distance and in-person learning). This program has its base in Athens.
To date, about 80 people have enrolled in this program, most having studied psychology, while several of them have been trained in clinical psychology, health psychology and counseling psychology.