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What is Family Therapy and Systemic Thinking?
Systemic family therapy is a comprehensive, dynamic and versatile framework designed to understand the complexity of an individual’s experience, the importance of relationships, and the significance of the big picture of life to create a full, holistic understanding. This approach focuses on relationships and context, and how these elements inform meaning-making. Importantly, systemic family therapy is not confined by the number of participants in the session; it can be effectively utilized with individuals, couples, families, and groups. That’s because as a framework for practice it is a way of thinking and working with clients that prioritizes relational patterns and contextual influences, setting it apart from frameworks that focus solely on the individual in isolation.
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Find out more about what family therapy and systemic thinking is
with the free introductory resources in the Online Program.
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These three YouTube clips provide a great introduction to family therapy and systemic thinking for those who are new to family therapy and systemic practice. They are best watched in the order presented. And make sure to download the free Systemic Thinking Application Activity to complete at the end and to guide your systemic thinking anytime.
Have you ever wondered "What is Family Therapy?"
Watch this video to understand how Family Therapists make sense of working with people...even if there is only one person in the room.
Understand who can benefit from this approach, how Family Therapy has evolved over time, and what does Family Therapy look like in contemporary practice.
Systemic Family Therapy is a framework for practice in the same way e.g., that Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Art Therapy or Psychodynamic Psychotherapy are frameworks for practice. Just to be really clear, this means that a Family Therapy approach is about how we think and work, not who is in the room, or how many people are in the room.
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In Systems Thinking for the Beginning Family Therapist Parts 1 & 2 you will learn to think from a systemic framework with the systems thinking concepts:
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Systems Focus
Identified Patient
Circularity
Process & Content Distinction
Family Strengths
Family Life Cycle
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And you will also learn some tips for working systemically with these concepts.
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