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Hypothesizing Metaframework in Integrative Systemic Therapy
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The concept of a metaframework underpins the hypothesizing metaframeworks that constitute the conceptual core of Integrative System Therapy (Pinsof et al. 2017). This concept originally appeared in Metaframeworks: Transcending the Models of Family Therapy (Breunlin et al. 1997). It was later incorporated into a precursor to IST known as Integrative Problem Centered Metaframeworks (Breunlin et al. 2011; Pinsof et al. 2011; Russell et al. 2015). Within the integrative systemic therapy (IST) approach, therapists use the hypothesizing metaframeworks (HMFs) to organize essential domains of human functioning (Pinsof et al. 2017). Each metaframework contains relevant knowledge about what constitutes adaptive and maladaptive human functioning within that domain to inform hypotheses. The seven HMFs – biology, mind, organization, culture, development, gender, and spirituality – represent the influence of...
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Sahebi, B., Aiello, C. (2019). Hypothesizing Metaframeworks in Integrative Systemic Therapy. In: Lebow, J.L., Chambers, A.L., Breunlin, D.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49425-8_1089
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