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Andre Marquis, who joined the Warner School in 2005, is a counseling educator who takes an integral approach to teaching and research in counseling. He believes that there is much to be gained by holistic and inclusive approaches to counseling that capitalize on the strengths and complementary nature of various counseling theories.
Marquis’ teaching and research interests include counseling theories, psychotherapy integration, psychodynamics, life-span development, mental health counseling, constructivist counseling, and the integral philosophy of Ken Wilber and its application as an integrative approach to counseling, teaching and supervision. In addition to continuing to develop empirical research on integral counseling, he is interested in exploring research on life-span development and human change processes, with a particular emphasis on how spirituality affects health and development issues.
Marquis has recently published The Integral Intake: A Guide to Comprehensive Idiographic Assessment in Integral Psychotherapy (Routledge, 2008). This book describes integral theory, assessment via the integral intake and how they both pertain to the practice of integral psychotherapy. The Integral Intake is a thorough yet efficient assessment instrument developed by Marquis. The goal of this comprehensive intake form is to provide the practitioner with a wealth of background information about clients as early as possible in the course of therapy. The intake form not only gathers extensive information about each client, it also organizes the information - making it easier for therapists to quickly and effectively formulate optimal courses of therapy for each unique client. In addition to assessment issues, the book provides an in-depth exposition of the relevance of integral theory as an integrative framework for psychotherapists and includes a 70-page chapter focusing on two case-studies that present actual clients’ completed Integral Intakes, how they were interpreted, the treatment plans constructed, and how the actual courses of therapy proceeded.
Marquis is also the co-author of Theoretical Models of Counseling and Psychotherapy (Brunner-Routledge, 2004), as well as numerous articles in such publications as Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, Constructivism in the Human Sciences, Psychoanalytic Inquiry, Counseling and Values, Journal of Humanistic Psychology, and Journal of Mental Health Counseling.
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