What is family therapy?
It is no strange to say that the family in Mexico is a fundamental institution for the development of both people, and their identities, and there is new thinking on the influence that keeps the family on welfare and also that there are external factors that challenge their economic, emotional and even biological, from all that, it makes sense to promote a therapeutic approach that from a systemic epistemology, consider the family unit as the subject of their strategies and interventions.
In this sense, the family therapy systems approach addresses the family as a set of individuals who, by remaining in everyday interaction, form a system, ie a unit in itself, possessing its own rules and organizational patterns which tend to constant self to preserve. Within a family, discomfort or welfare of each of the members will have an impact on the welfare of other members of the system, and even, in its entire structure. With this foundation as a starting point, the therapeutic process that leads to some family will have an impact leading to changes in all of it, and inversely, psychotherapy involving the whole family moves to each of the members involved in the system daily.
With this approach, the systemic therapist or the therapist have the opportunity to address a wide range of family problems, from drug dependence to marital conflicts, eating disorders, emotional crisis or problems at school, since their work is not centralized around an "identified patient", but in the family system entirely and liaison relationships that comprise it. One of the principles of systemic family therapy is that problems become of difficulties in relationships (or interactions) that the family has failed to solve by itself, some of the many models falling within this approach, says that even the relational problems are reinforced on each occasion when the family applies the same attempt at a solution.
The big difference between the systemic approach and other approaches to psychotherapy is, of course, the notion that the problems leading to a customer to consultation, are not inherent intrapsychic or person, for everything there is a relevant context in understanding the logic of conflict, a context where the problem might be a survival strategy. The person who the family identifies as the patient being treated despatologiza responsibilities and lost by interactional perspective, is seen as a person and not as an avatar of the disorder.
worth mentioning that another important difference between the systemic approach and other perspectives it is argued that the effect is the therapeutic work. For the usage of other means of therapy, the therapeutic situation can last for as long as the session in the office, as the motivating force change, ie, the specialist in psychotherapy, not exist outside the context of the office, on the systemic approach, however, one where you can get involved to the process grandmother, neighbor, cousin, best friend the school teacher and even a pet or a janitor, because everyone can be part of a relevant system for therapeutic work, the therapeutic situation extends to the context of the client, allowing you to continue the reflection and the exchange process beyond clinic walls. Involving other stakeholders in the client's life, they also function as agents of change, and not necessarily as preservers of the status quo that would lead Originally the client to seek therapy.
This vision that puts the customer or a family context, and the family as a social, cultural and economic development, promotes a shift from the individual to their community, and life experiences to the cultural patterns . The systemic approach strongly raises the importance of psychotherapy as a factor of social change, and promotes this transformation in everyday clinical practice.
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