Family Therapy: Pearson International Edition Notes

Family Therapy - Genogram and Ecomap

This summary covers chapter 4: Postmodernism and Family Therapy. Within this chapter, key aspects to postmodernism and modernism are covered, and how it is all related to family therapy.

This summary is based on Chapter 3: The paradigmatic shift of Systems Theory. This essentially covers the key aspects to Simple Cybernetics (First-Order Principles) and Cybernetics of Cybernetics (Second-Order Principles).

Two different world views (Chapter 1) from Ecosystemic Psychology. This summary tackles a brief framework for individual psychology and a brief framework of systemic family therapy.

A comprehensive summary of the PYC4808 Ecosystemic psychology coursework for examination purposes. Including - definitions, a comparison of individual vs systemic family psychology, shift of systems theory, first and second order cybernetics principles, a comparison of first and second order cybernetics in terms of reality, therapy, therapists role, health & pathology, ethics, boundaries & feedback, the concept of postmodernism, stage of the family life cycle, stage of a marriage, Erik Erikson'...