PSYC36H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Structural Family Therapy, Identified Patient, Relationship Counseling
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Most simply: couple therapy involves the treatment of two partners who are in a relationship together, family therapy describes the treatment of family members jointly. Behavior of individuals is interdependent, circular, and subject to mutual influence. Chapter 10: humans are viewed as an open system in which there is ongoing exchange with those lying outside the system, be they other individuals, families, or other systems. But if you learned the context, that he is actually a famous scientist who studies imprinting, you can make sense of the situation and his behavior! Even severe mental illness could be explained (apparently: the whole family is the patient, but the individual with the mental illness carries the burden--the identified patient. Therefore, dealing with the family was seen as the most appropriate method for change. Cybernetics: the science of communication and control in man and machine developed by.
