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In Integrative Systemic Therapy With Couples, Dr. William M. Pinsof demonstrates and discusses an approach that integrates diverse therapeutic strategies and techniques within a multisystemic sequential framework that transcends the notion of the individual, couple, or family.

Integrative systemic therapy intervenes in a client system, working with the members of that system who are directly involved in therapy while simultaneously considering the indirect system, those members of the client system not ""in the room.""

Although the direct client system in this work is typically the couple, the indirect system in which the couple is embedded - children, parents, siblings, and friends - remains part of the purview of the therapeutic work.

In this video, Dr. Pinsof demonstrates this approach with a young African American married couple coming into therapy to resolve issues surrounding their relationship.