| Edition |
Third edition. |
| Description |
106 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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Becvar, Raphael: Occupation/field of activity group: occ Psychologists lcdgt |
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Becvar, Raphael: Gender group: gdr Men lcdgt |
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Becvar, Dorothy: Occupation/field of activity group: occ University and college faculty members lcdgt |
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Becvar, Dorothy: Social group: soc Retirees lcdgt |
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Becvar, Dorothy: Gender group: gdr Women lcdgt |
| Note |
In the 2nd ed. Dorothy Stroh Becvar's name appears first on the t.p. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-102) and index. |
| Contents |
Chapter 1 About Theories -- Chapter 2 Systems Theory/Cybernetics: A Paradigm Shift. Modernism ; Postmodernism ; Constructivism ; Social Constructionism ; First-Order and Second-order Cybernetics ; Chapter 3 First-Order Cybernetics: Definitions of Concepts. Boundaries ; Communication/Information processing ; Context ; Entropy and Negative Entropy ; Equifinality ; Homeostasis, Morphostasis and Morphogenesis ; Open and Closed Systems ; Positive and Negative Feedback ; Recursion ; Relationship ; Wholeness ; Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Second-Order Cybernetics: Definitions of Concepts. Autopoiesis ; Consensual Domains ; Epistemology of Participation ; Feedback ; Non-Purposeful Drift ; Openness and Closedness ; Reality as a Multiverse ; Structural Coupling ; Structural Determinism ; Wholeness and Self-Reference ; Summary and Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Family Interpretive: Systems/Stories -- Chapter 6 Family Development Through the Life Cycle -- Chapter 7 The Family as System -- Chapter 8 A Critique and Defense of a Systems Perspective -- Chapter 9 Implications For Family Therapy. Stability and Change ; General Principles ; Engaging the Family, Assessment, and Therapeutic Goals ; Pragmatics ; Final Thoughts -- Chapter 10 In Conclusion. |
| Summary |
This book provides an overvieww of the basic concepts of a systems theoretical perspective using families and family therapy as examples and illustrations of their application in professional practice. This meta-perspective focuses on viewing problems in context. The difference between first-order and second-order cybernetics is explicated. Readers then are invited to see themselves as parts of the systems with which they are working consistent with a second-order cybernetics perspective. Along the way a difference between modernism and post-modernism as well as constructionism and social constructionism also are described. In addition, theories of individual and family development are presented with implications for their use in family therapy. The book concludes with more than one hundred examples of how the meta-perspective of systems theory can be used in work with families. -- From back cover. |
| Subject |
Family psychotherapy.
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Social systems.
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Family Therapy (DNLM)D005196
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Family psychotherapy. (OCoLC)fst00920448
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Social systems. (OCoLC)fst01123410
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| Added Author |
Becvar, Dorothy Stroh, author.
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| ISBN |
9780761869818 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0761869816 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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