Systemic therapy - A Psychotherapy technique: Systemic therapy and systemic coaching (psychotherapy) simply explained

By Patricia Sommer

The concept of the systemic concept is a mystery to many people, which is why the thought of systemic therapy, systemic counseling or systemic supervision is a thought that occurs to very few people. Yet "systemic" means nothing more than that a certain group of people forms a system. Much more familiar are terms like "family therapy," "group coaching," or "work supervision," all of which are getting at the same thing.

The content of the book is as follows:
- What is the approach?
- Constructivism
- Therapy
- 11 methods of systemic consulting
- Child psychotherapy
- Systemic Coaching

Why then do so few people understand this concept?
Why is it not clearly spoken about more publicly that parents are not perfect either and that it is accordingly permissible to seek help?
Why is family life and/or work life always portrayed as idyllic, even though this is not the case at all?

These are precisely the aspects that young people in particular find out about at some point: When they become parents too quickly and too young, or when they are confronted within their profession with people who themselves actually urgently need therapy.

A systemic therapy deals exactly with these things and is furthermore accessible for everyone. How exactly such a therapy takes place, how a consultation proceeds and how a supervision is carried out will be explained in this book.

• Language: English
• Publisher: XinXii
• Release date: Apr 18, 2022
• ISBN: 9783986469757

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Introduction

Systematic counseling describes a methodology in psychotherapy.

The field of psychotherapy or even general psychology is always a very difficult one. Both in books and in conversations, it is a subject that very few people deal with or even know about. It is a subject that, like a disease, is preferred to be kept quiet. It is rare to find a conversation about psychology in public, even if one of the participants in that conversation is interested in it. There are too many counter-contrasts that strongly resist simply bringing up this topic. This makes psychology, and even more so psychotherapy, a very secretive topic, about which even children learn very little, if anything.

This is because the reputation of a therapist is sometimes still quite negative. Especially old-fashioned people understand very little about mental problems and illnesses. We still live in a time when depression is not taken seriously, and when it comes to an unpleasant end, the arguments are that the person should only have sought help. The fact that the signs of seeking help existed for a long time and that psychotherapy was created precisely for this purpose interests very few people. Although the today's time is with it a time, in which mental problematics are taken only rarely seriously, nevertheless ever more humans the opinion of a therapist search. More and more people choose the life path of a psychologist and accordingly study in general psychology before specializing in a certain subcategory. This rush can be compared to the enthusiasm in the field of psychology that took place around 1920, when personality psychology first became available to the general population. At that time, too, more and more people dabbled in the difficult and mysterious science of thought, only to realize quite quickly that there is much more within psychology than just sorting personality types. Accordingly, this rush subsided again quickly and almost general psychology fell into oblivion after the two world wars. It was no longer a matter of sorting personality types, but rather of caring for warriors and soldiers who could no longer lead stable lives of their own. Many of them returned to their home countries traumatized and showed disorders such as post-traumatic stress disorder, which can manifest itself in excessive aggression, in tics, but also in anxiety. Thus, it could be said that those who had to go to a therapist were considered crazy in the standard of the time. No normal citizen, who owned a simple row house, which was not at all or hardly different from the houses of the neighbors, in a small suburb, where the only thing that mattered was to be as perfect as possible, wanted to admit that a psychologist might be able to help him, too. People had learned to quickly suppress these thoughts and pretend they were perfectly normal. This triggered trauma in a large percentage of the population. Suppressed traumas, however small, were still traumas that were passed on to the next generation, the current generation.

Mental problems have thus almost become a standard in today's world. These inherited problems of the trauma of parents or grandparents is deeply anchored in one's own DNA, especially since in addition the world is not exactly getting easier. Instead, it's the exact opposite. The many environmental factors that currently occupy much of the media and politics are not making life easier. Instead, the tone in the workplace, but also in families, is getting rougher and rougher.

Many children are now painfully learning this. School is not a pleasure, the children are not properly prepared for what will come later, the parents are stressed and leave out exactly this stress at home and even if the children then manage to get a job or an internship despite their educators and despite their school performance, they are treated anything but well. Climate change is making it increasingly difficult for the new generation to first take on the older generations, who are often not even remotely interested in it, preferring instead the harmful power of energy. The problem of poverty is catching up with more and more families, and the social standards of general beauty are making it difficult for young people to love each other as they should.

The problems of today are thus serious. More and more young people, who have barely reached the right adulthood, are actively committed to helping the planet, whether this is in the area of climate change or rather in the area of work, when people are helped who live destitute on the streets. Accordingly, many are committed to a better life. This also means that more and more people are once again turning to psychology, even if only purely out of interest in the subject. With this, there is quite a rush of psychologists and a not-so-small percentage of today's youth are taking it up. However, it is not only the young people of today's generation who very often turn up to see a therapist, but also older people, who have actually been brought up conservatively, are increasingly seeking the help of a psychology student.

There are many reasons for this. The reputation of a psychology student can certainly be negatively afflicted, and especially in public people always try to make themselves look their best. Secretly and discreetly, however, exactly these people nevertheless seek help from a therapist or psychologist, because the successes of psychotherapy certainly cannot be rejected or even denied. Especially when young people actively report at the dinner table about what tips their therapist has given them or what progress has been made recently, their parents or close relatives are more and more often tempted to at least make a phone call. It is not uncommon for a call to turn into a consultation, and a consultation to turn into long-term therapy for a trauma that the person would never have recognized on their own.

Psychology is thus a subject that has now become part of people's everyday lives. However, since there are many different therapists, psychologists or psychiatrists with quite different approaches, many different methods have developed over the years, which now belong to the general standard. It must be said that general psychology is an empirical science, which states that only through practice can real knowledge be gained. Thus, each new client is considered to be absolutely individual. Again and again it starts from the beginning and again and again new methods are needed to help these individual personalities. Nevertheless, however, certain clinical pictures can be categorized, for example, just as personalities can be categorized. Accordingly, it is not surprising that techniques have developed over the years that are particularly popular within a therapy, either because they have shown high chances of success in the past or because they have delivered particularly good results so far.

Systematic counseling is one of these methods, it has already actively helped many people.

What is the systemic approach?

Basically, systematic counseling explains a major problem in psychotherapy today. General psychology, as we know it today, rarely takes place on an inpatient basis. There are still clinics that specialize in this area, but these clinics and hospitals are intended