Psychotherapy integration: Reflexions and contributions from a constructivist epistemology: Reflections and contributions from a constructivist epistemology

This article describes the different traditions within the psychotherapy integration movement. It begins by providing a constructivist view of the factors that influenced the movement's development. It distinguishes among pragmatic, theoretically guided, and systematic technical eclecticisms. Also, it differentiates between hybrid and extended models of theoretical integration. Finally, the article covers the common factors perspective. For each of these types of psychotherapy integration, a series of constructivist contributions is presented. Further, constructivism has generated a new modality of psychotherapy integration known as theoretically progressive integration, based on the combination of approaches that are epistemologically compatible.