Theme: moving away from a cybernetic, mechanical, and behevaioristic approach to Family Therapy, towards more "postmodern", objective, and fluid approach to family therapy.
Key Terms:
Cybernetic: activity of feedback cycles, not only inmmachine but in humans.
* homeostatic cycles that stabilize a family
* a therapist seeks in break disruptive, un-profitable homeostatic cycles.
Social Constructionist Theory: holds that our beliefs about the world are social inventions.
* as we move through the world, we build up our ideas about it in conversation w/ others.
* see the development of knowledge as a social phenomenon.
Idealism: view that knowledge derives from internal constructs
* S.C theory moves away from this.
Positivism: knowledge is a representation of facts and events in a "real" world.
* S.C theory moves away from this.
Second-Order lens:looking from outside the system
* taking a position that is a step removed from the operation itself so that you can
perceive the operation reflexively.
* allows you to see that a particular interpretation is only one among many possible ones
* a second order view would mean that a therapist include themselves as part of what must
change; they can not NOT influence the system.
Counter-intuitive principle: commonsense solutions to complex problems often have the opposite
effect to what was intended.
* because there exists secondary the tertiary feedback looks that are not obvious.
Lens of Gender: most psychological models and theories are based of a male dominated research
and worldview.
* emphasis on independence, autonomy, and control is not as compatible to woman to the
degree it is with men.
* being gender sensitive as well as having gender worldview awareness is a better model.
Hoffman:
1) believed a incorporation of...
* social constructionist theory
* second order lens
* gender lens
...is more effective that taking a strict, cybernetic model.
ENJOY: KISS KISS JASON
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