Psychotherapy in Integrated Care: Strengths-Based Approaches for Behavioral and Mental Health Providers

This book combines strengths-based counseling and positive psychotherapy approaches with integrated care, offering providers a practical, evidence-based framework for enhancing collaborative care across diverse clinical settings. Written by an expert clinician with over 25 years of experience in integrated healthcare, this book provides theoretical grounding, detailed intervention strategies, and real-world examples that behavioral health providers can use immediately in collaboration with medical teams.It addresses the fundamental question of what drives patients to pursue and maintain wellness, providing actionable strategies to help individuals not only recover from health challenges but thrive.Readers will gain skills to shift clinical sessions from problem-centered narratives to strengths-focused dialogues as well as strategies for embedding resilience- and meaning-centered practices into the culture of healthcare organizations.Chapters explore core counseling theories and techniq