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Today, integrative approaches in psychotherapy and counseling have attracted the attention of psychologists. In this regard, researchers have done many studies, and research evidence is also based on the good effects of integrated approaches. Therefore, the current research aims to examine integrative approaches and provide strategies for an integrative approach in psychotherapy and counseling.

The current research is a review and analytical research using the library method to collect data. In this way, relevant articles and books were obtained by searching for the keyword integrative approach in reliable scientific and research databases.

The review of sources showed different strategies for formulating an integrative approach, among which we can refer to the six strategies proposed by Mahrer (1989), procedural strategy, and framework strategy.

Analyzing the research findings, using a dynamic and process strategy in integration and considering the approaches that integrators paid less attention to can be useful.

In this study, the coastal upwelling was investigated along the northern shoreline of the Persian Gulf. For this purpose, the shoreline was divided to 34 segments from northwest to the southeast. the long-term satellite data have been obtained including wind speed components and sea surface temperature (SST). Based on wind speed data, the Ekman transport components (zonal and meridional) were computed for a period of 24 years and with the Ekman transport components, coastal upwelling index were calculated for this period. The annual cycles of coastal upwelling revealed the most intense coastal upwelling at the central areas of north coastal waters, about 27.6 N-28.4 N and 51.1 E -51.6 E, including three peaks in June, November and February. Then, a cross-correlation analysis was employed on the 24-year daily time series to evaluate the effect of coastal upwelling on the SST. The time lag at each of segment was found 3 or 4 days (mostly 4). As expected from upwelling theory, the computed statistically significant cross-correlations coefficients represented that the SST reduces more in the sub-regions (segments) with the more intense coastal upwelling along the northern shoreline of Persian Gulf. So, in this paper, the results of the statistical analysis validated the used data and the results came from computation procedure. All the data processing, computation, analyses, diagrams and plots have been programmed and provided by MATLAB.