AMBIT does not claim to be an overarching 'supertheory' which has worked out all the theoretical and practical relationships between different therapeutic models. It starts from an assumption that the relationships between different theories and practices need to be considered in a way analogous to how the relationships between different domains of a person's life are considered in clinical practice. As a clinically-oriented practice/intervention, there is a strong overarching emphasis on Theory in Practice.

Key assumptions from each of a set of different theoretical orientations are briefly considered under Theoretical/Explanatory Frameworks

The core notion of Taking Responsibility for integration of the different ways of working that flow from all these different schools of thinking does not require the KeyWorker to be expert in all these Theoretical/Explanatory Frameworks, but to be aware:

(a) That very different ways of making sense of complex things like human behaviour exist. (b) That sometimes one or other of these explanatory frameworks offers an intervention or technique that most particularly and contingently addresses the problem at hand, offering a lever for change in that time.

Other points of theory are gathered as Sub-topics under this heading (see the "show references and info" panel, top right of this page)