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The field of family therapy – indeed, the entire field of psychotherapy – has moved steadily in the direction of integration (Lebow 2014; Orlinsky and Ronnestad 2005). Most generally, integration refers to efforts to bridge different models or schools of therapy. There are several types of integration: theoretical integration, in which two models are blended and a higher level of theory unites them; technical eclecticism, in which techniques from a number of different models are gathered together and decision rules are developed to apply these techniques to particular presenting problems; theoretical eclecticism, in which entire theories (not just associated techniques) are selected based on the clinical needs in the therapy at any one time; common factors, in which the unifying principles and practices across models are discerned; and assimilative integration, in which techniques from one or more models are integrated into a base theory/model
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Fraenkel, P. (2016). Integration in Couple and Family Therapy. In: Lebow, J., Chambers, A., Breunlin, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of Couple and Family Therapy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15877-8_534-1
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