ACTIVITY 13

Clara Rudy Ramírez Id. 625722

July 2019

Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios, Uniminuto Bogotá Sur

Ciencias Sociales y Humanas - Psicología

Inglés III NRC 882

Bogotá
 INTRODUCTION

Psychology is that science responsible for the study of the mind in all the fields it

covers, including brain functions, the development of human beings and the way they feel,

think and learn in relation to the environment around us. It has many branches that respond

to diverse paradigms, and among them are Cognitive Psychology, Humanist-Experiential

Psychology, Psychoanalysis, Constructivism and Systemic Psychology that speaks of

psychotherapy seen from another perspective.

ARGUMENTS

The systemic approach is that model that understands the individual in their context and

expresses that the relationship between people and their environment is subject to a

dynamic that arises around their life and coexistence with others. Therefore the most

significant context is considered as the family, which is understood as a system.

Systemic therapy understands problems from the contextual framework and focuses on

understanding and changing the dynamics of relationships (family, work, etc.). The roles

and behaviors of people in these contexts are understood to be included by the unspoken

rules of that system and the interaction between its members.

Paul Watzlawick was a pioneer in distinguishing linear causality and circular causality,

to explain with it the various repetitive patterns of interaction possible and marking a before

and after in the interpretation of difficulties in personal relationships. The circular vision of

problems is marked by how the behavior of one individual influences the actions of

another, which in turn also influences the former.

 CONCLUSION

 Systemic therapy offers a circular, interactive vision, within the system or group

that has its rules of transformation and self-controls through feedback phenomena to

maintain a state of equilibrium. The components of the system come into contact

through communication, one of the keys to this therapy.

 Systemic therapists help systems find balance. Unlike other forms of therapy, for

example psychoanalytic therapy, the objective is to approach in a practical way the

current patterns of the relationship, instead of causes, as in this example can be the

subconscious impulses of a childhood trauma.