This article illustrates how to treat children and their families from an integrative family systems approach. First, the authors provide a brief overview of family systems perspective and how various systems approaches have been found to be effective for children and adolescents with depression. The authors then stress the importance of applying systems perspective in a holistic sense whereby all of the various social domains that have an affect on the children and their depression are addressed. Such application includes consultation with the schools and broader social contexts.
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