ABSTRACT
The practice of family therapy has substantially come to be synonymous with the practice of integrative methods. Sometimes integrative approaches are labeled as empirically supported treatments; sometimes as treatments for specific disorders; sometimes as ways of intervening with clients from specific cultures; and sometimes as integrative and eclectic treatments, but these methods are everywhere. Integrative approaches to family therapy have returned to ascendance through gradual evolution rather than sudden change. Integration in family therapy also typically extends across session formats: family, couple, parent–child, individual, and, at times, group. Integrative approaches typically assume a bio-psycho-social model of human functioning. Integrative family therapies share some variant of systems theory as a core set of assumptions. Integrative and eclectic therapies move beyond the one-size-fits-all philosophy to tailor specific intervention strategies to the kind of problem under consideration and the specific case at hand.
