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- Title
Systemic Thinking in a Linear World: Issues in the Application of Interactional Counseling.
- Authors
Sexton, Thomas L.
- Abstract
Counseling practitioners are increasingly being exposed to the theoretical ideas and clinical techniques based in systems thinking. Systemic or interactional counseling approaches are based on an alternative view of causality and symptomatic behavior. As a result, several treatment, ethical. and legal challenges await the counselor who attempts to implement these theoretical ideas. Because of these potential problems, practitioners interested in such approaches must recognize and be prepared to deal with the unique difficulties that accompany this method of counseling. Using spouse abuse as an example, the author reviews the basic components of systemic approaches, identifies the potential problems inherent in their implementation, and offers solutions for the interactional counselor.
- Subjects
COUNSELING; COUPLES counseling; FAMILY psychotherapy; FAMILY counselors; HUMAN behavior; COUNSELORS
- Publication
Journal of Counseling & Development, 1994, Vol 72, Issue 3, p249
- ISSN
0748-9633
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/j.1556-6676.1994.tb00930.x