System family psychotherapy – new approach to psychological consultation on family problems. As the client the whole family as a uniform organism undertakes. The purpose is to adjust functioning of a family system in general.
Family as an object for influence
The system family psychotherapy considers family as an independent organism with the history, values and laws of development. The therapist is adequately included in therapy process, he observes or acts as the trainer. In passing he asks questions, controls, can create artificially conflict or any other situation. The system direction is the leader in family psychology today.
Older directions considered one person as object of psychological influence, system takes family and all its system for such object. There was such theory not from any earlier existing psychological knowledge, and from cybernetics. In cybernetics there is the general theory of systems. It says that whole there are more than the sum of its parts. All parts and processes of whole vzaimoobuslavlivat each other.
The family system represents group of the people with a platitude of accommodation connected by a certain relationship. It is claimed that acts of family members are subordinated to laws and rules of all family system. Not always something happens because of desire of family members. The family system is constantly reported with the environment.
Purposes and methods of system family psychotherapy
The psychotherapist allows to speak to everyone and provides the rest comfort. Together with family he looks for an opportunity to change functioning of a family system to the best. The task to change the logging-in certain people at the same time is not available. The system family psychology has several currents some of which do not demand presence of all family members on a psychotherapeutic session. Work with that from them whose problems and behavior became a reason for the address of all family to the psychotherapist. Through it eliminate negative aspects of intra family communications. Any pathologies of mentality are regarded as manifestation of the inadequate relations in family. In families there are rules, myths, examples of behavior. Their specifics can provoke mental diseases at family members. The child in the childhood accumulates in himself the negative examples of behavior observed at adults. Subsequently he begins to reproduce unconsciously them in adulthood. Therapy techniques: circular interview. Ask one family member how two others belong to each other. Sometimes the therapist resorts to supervision, placing for a unilateral mirror of the colleagues. Colleagues watch process and share the reasons. Also the therapist uses such method as positive redefinition of a problem from which the family came. An essence – not to diminish difficulty, and to present them friends who will help to find a way out.