Introduction
For over 20 years, colleagues of The Family Institute at Northwestern University, including William Pinsof, Douglas Breunlin, William P. Russell, and Jay Lebow, collaborated to integrate the many distinct models and theories of psychotherapy, including, family, couple, and individual therapies to unify into one integrative perspective – Integrative Problem-Centered Metaframeworks (IPCM) Therapy (Breunlin et al. 2011; Pinsof et al. 2011). IPCM is the descendant of Integrative Problem-Centered Therapy (IPCT; Pinsof 1995), Metaframeworks (Breunlin et al. 1992), and a precursor to Integrative Systemic Therapy (IST; Pinsof et al. 2017). IPCM also integrates the work of Lebow and colleagues’ integrative psychotherapy and common factors (Sprenkle et al. 2009). In addition, IPCM incorporates the Systemic Therapy Inventory of Change (STIC; Pinsof et al. 2009, 2015) that...
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Pettway, T., He, Y. (2018). Integrative Problem-Centered Metaframeworks. 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_916-1
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