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System strategic counseling
This counseling method is focused on problem-solving. The major representatives of strategic systems consulting such as M. Bowen, J. Haley, K. Madanes, S. Minukhin, M. S. Palazzolli and others relied on systems theory in their work, they were developing the experience of Gregory Bateson and Palo Alto`s group and Milton Erickson.
1) Systems theory derives from cybernetic theory (see N. Wiener, Cybernetics, Wiley, New York, 1948).
“According to this theory, for the first time it became possible to consider human beings not as a separately from each other, but as a group where everyone reacts in such a way as to sustain homeostasis, and therefore the behavior has a reason connected with the present. It was stated that the stability of the family system is maintained by self-correcting processes, and when trying to change anything, these processes are being activated. The idea that the family, or any other group, is a system supported by a feedback process has brought another dimension to explaining human behavior. It was a stunning understanding that, apparently, people are doing what they are doing, as a reaction to the actions of other
people ... ”.
The main advantage of systems theory, according to J. Haley, is that it gives opportunity to predict certain events...