Integrative Behavioral Therapy Vs CBT
Discuss how McMinn and Campbell’s type of CBT is different than the CBT you read about in Beck. What are the similarities and differences?
The largest separation between Integrative Psychotherapy (IP) and other types of psychotherapy, in this case, Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), is the integration of a Christian worldview as a means of not only explaining maladaptive behaviors, problems, and concerns, but also how a Christian counselor should treat them therapeutically. The similarities between an integrative CBT style and a non-integrative CBT style actually point out their differences simultaneously. IP follows many of the same theoretical concepts as CBT but continues searching for deeper reasons and further meaning into why a person
acts, behaves, and feels the way they do. McMinn and Campbell (2007) agree with “…the biblical assertion that humans are created in the image of God (or, imago Dei)” and as such, “…view God’s image in three categories: functional, structural, and relational” (pp. 26-27).
Another difference between IP and non-IP is the former views all three of the above mentioned categories; whereas the latter usually stops after the first. And even if non-IP does review the other two categories it is not done with the same mindset or from a Christian worldview. This in turn reveals another difference between IP and non-IP and that is the underlying motivation for people’s behavior. Non-IP believes that people just want to inherently feel better while IP believes the same thing but with the addition of feeling better because it reveals the nature of God (McMinn & Campbell, 2007).
Furthermore, a non-IP may either minimize or exclude altogether the importance that culture plays within the context of human problems. If therapy is approached in a linear fashion, then cultural incompetence may occur which could have inconsistent, unpredictable, unexpected, or undesirable outcomes with clients McMinn & Campbell, 2007). However, since IP approaches man’s iniquity and folly from a bi-directional or circular view cultural competence is more readily achieved.
The largest separation between Integrative Psychotherapy (IP) and other types of psychotherapy, in this case, Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), is the integration of a Christian worldview as a means of not only explaining maladaptive behaviors, problems, and concerns, but also how a Christian counselor should treat them therapeutically. The similarities between an integrative CBT style and a non-integrative CBT style actually point out their differences simultaneously. IP follows many of the same theoretical concepts as CBT but continues searching for deeper reasons and further meaning into why a person
acts, behaves, and feels the way they do. McMinn and Campbell (2007) agree with “…the biblical assertion that humans are created in the image of God (or, imago Dei)” and as such, “…view God’s image in three categories: functional, structural, and relational” (pp. 26-27).
Another difference between IP and non-IP is the former views all three of the above mentioned categories; whereas the latter usually stops after the first. And even if non-IP does review the other two categories it is not done with the same mindset or from a Christian worldview. This in turn reveals another difference between IP and non-IP and that is the underlying motivation for people’s behavior. Non-IP believes that people just want to inherently feel better while IP believes the same thing but with the addition of feeling better because it reveals the nature of God (McMinn & Campbell, 2007).
Furthermore, a non-IP may either minimize or exclude altogether the importance that culture plays within the context of human problems. If therapy is approached in a linear fashion, then cultural incompetence may occur which could have inconsistent, unpredictable, unexpected, or undesirable outcomes with clients McMinn & Campbell, 2007). However, since IP approaches man’s iniquity and folly from a bi-directional or circular view cultural competence is more readily achieved.