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Research in human development and studies on therapy process and outcome respectively address similar questions: How does change come about and what influences it? Very similar answers emerge from these two research domains. Both have much to offer to the contemporary endeavors for therapy integration. The comparisons of the findings combined with clinical experience provide a basis for an integrative framework for therapeutic practice that can be applied to any therapy model. The components of the framework are used to discuss differences and similarities among 3 major therapeutic models. Practice is seen as a starting point for integration, which ultimately happens at an individual level.An integrative therapist starts from the premise that human beings are complex and can be understood at different levels. No single theory or psychological research fully explains what it is to be human. But an understanding of human growth and development has much to offer a therapist when he or she tries to makes sense of what goes on between her and her client: "Since infants are the most rapidly changing human beings, it is natural to wish to understand change processes in development for their relevance to therapeutic change" (Stern et al., 1998, p. 906). That change processes in human development, particularly in infancy and childhood,

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