Systemic Interventions E-Book

Arist von Schlippe

• Herausgeber: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Seitenzahl: 218

Beschreibung

Systemic thinking has opened up further areas of specialization from one-on-one and couples therapy to clinical supervision and organizational development.Systemic intervention sees a problem as an incident involving a number of different, interacting individuals. In this sense, conflict, problems and occurrences are viewed and treated within the social context. This comprehensive introduction contains many examples and detailed suggestions for a practical approach to directed conversation.

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Arist von Schlippe/Jochen Schweitzer

Systemic Interventions

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Contents

The value of systemic intervention

Profiling systemic intervention

1 The start: two basic premises

2 Involuntary contracts and triadic contracting

3 A systemic understanding of “problems”

4 Genograms, organigrams, system diagrams

5 Systemic questioning

6 Sculpting, constellations and other metaphorical approaches

7 Reframing: “Spinning gold from straw”

8 Reflecting teams and reflecting positions

9 Interventions in coaching

10 Interventions in systemic team and organizational consultation

Glossary

Literature

The value of systemic intervention

The term “systemic” refers to an approach that was introduced during the 1950s in what has become known as family therapy. Later, the approach was expanded beyond the family setting to develop its own, more specific techniques of systemic therapy (cf. Ludewig, 1992). It has since then found its way into various settings of psychological psychotherapy, counseling, coaching or consultation. This book describes the systemic approach to psychosocial interventions in general. The reader will therefore find the term “systemic” variably connected to the distinct domains of professional work that are termed psychotherapy, counseling, coaching or consultation.

In psychotherapy, it has been applied to settings like individual therapy (Boscolo & Bertrando, 1996; Schwartz, 1997), couples therapy (Dym, 1995; Gurman & Fraenkel, 2002; Fishbane, 2013; Fraenkel, 2009), family therapy (Campbell, Draper & Huffington, 1991; Carr, 2012; Dallos & Draper, 2010; Hoffman & Clark, 2002; Hills, 2012; Jones, 1993; Lebow, 2005; McGoldrick & Hardy, 2008; Rivett & Street, 2009), family therapy with children and adolescents (Wilson, 1998; Retzlaff, 2008; Combrinck-Graham, 1989), multi-family therapy (McFarlane, 2004; Asen & Scholz, 2009; Asen, Dawson & McHugh, 2001), multi-systemic therapy (Henggeler, Schoenwald, Borduin, Rowland & Cunningham, 2009) and family-centered hospital consultation (Wynne, Daniel & Weber, 1986). Within German-speaking countries concepts for “systemic social work” (Ritscher, 2002) and “systemic education” (Voss, 2005) have been published.

Aside from clinical and social work the approach is prevalent in both profit and non-profit organizations and is applied in systemic management and leadership, as well as in and in team and organizational consulting (Senge, 1994; Beer, 1995; Campbell & Huffington, 2008; Trebesch 2000, Königswieser & Hillebrand, 2004; Wimmer, 2004; Wimmer, Meissner & Wolf, 2009). A large number of methods and types of intervention have been created for various settings (e. g. Caby & Caby, 2014; Klein & Kannicht, 2009; Königswieser & Exner, 2002; Schwing & Fryszer, 2014; Winek, 2010).