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Author : Yvonne M. Agazarian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 16,49 MB
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1000291103

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This illustrated book shows how "thinking" systems offer new ways of seeing people which can help us see and do things differently. The authors describe how a theory of living human systems was developed and even recently revised. This major revision led to a theory of the person-as-a-system and its role-systems map that helps us see which system in us and in others is running the show. The authors illustrate how life force energy fuels the hierarchy of living human systems and how theory and practice with role-systems can be useful in everyday life. They begin with describing how they have used the new illustrations as a map to locate the contexts of our roles. Using this map has also enabled the authors to identify the role-systems and explore the territory of ourselves and our groups in new ways that deepened our understanding of roles and role locks. This book illustrates systems-centered therapy and training (SCT) theory by offering a practical theory to guide group psychotherapists, leaders and consultants in working with group dynamics.

Author : Yvonne M. Agazarian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 33,67 MB
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0429918771

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This book is a collection of preliminary reports from the systems-centered training (SCT) field, demonstrating its value, and introducing the ideas. It covers a range of applications that represent the SCT methods and the systems thinking that underlies SCT practice.

Author : Susan Porter Gantt
Publisher : Karnac Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 15,68 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Psychology
ISBN :

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Systems-centered therapy (SCT) brings an innovative approach to clinical practice. Developed by Yvonne Agazarian, SCT introduces a theory and set of methods that put systems ideas into practice. The collection of articles in this book illustrates the array of clinical applications in which SCT is now used. Each chapter introduces particular applications of SCT theory or methods with specific examples from practice that help the theory and methods come alive for the reader across a variety of clinical contexts. This book will be especially useful for therapists and clinical practitioners interested in sampling SCT, for those who learn best with clinical examples, and for anyone with a serious interest in learning the systems-centered approach.

Author : Yvonne M Agazarian
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 14,2 MB
Release : 2001-02-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 184642223X

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Systems-centered therapy is theory driven, therefore every intervention is in fact an hypothesis that tests both the validity of the theory and the reliability of its practice as it applies to short and long-term therapy with individuals, families, couples and groups. This book is built around the transcript of an inpatient therapy session, giving the reader the opportunity to follow verbatim how systems-centered therapy actually works. The script tracks the initial techniques that introduce systems-centered norms to a group. These include encouraging patients to explore their experience instead of explaining it, and to join together in subgroups around the common human resistances that interfere with being able to do therapeutic work. Wherever appropriate, the author annotates the script with the rational behind a particular method. Other chapters give an overview of the systems-centered ideas, their formulation as a theory of living human systems, and the systems-centered methods of boundarying, vectoring, contextualizing and functional subgrouping that put the theory into practice. Agazarian's book is an important text for all those who are interested in applying systems thinking to therapy, and, with its many practical examples, particularly useful to those who are interested in using systems-centered techniques.

Author : Yvonne Agazarian
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 39,94 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781572301955

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Systems-Centered Therapy (SCT) is an innovative approach to psychotherapy that synthesizes a finely tuned awareness of the defensive roles of anxiety, depression, and other common presenting problems with a groundbreaking analysis of the phases of group development. This seminal volume from SCT originator Yvonne M. Agazarian introduces the author's theory of living human systems and explicitly maps out its operationalization in a structured treatment model applicable to work with any population. Shifting the central focus of the therapy group from self to system, the book explicates essential new methods, such as functional subgrouping and boundarying, and shows how active intervention in the group process can direct the energy of members toward the goals of therapy. Extensive illustrative dialogues elucidate the ways that the SCT approach both frees groups from unproductive patterns and helps members achieve a more authentic, integrated experience of the here-and-now. In contrast to most therapies, which encourage the therapist to observe and follow the movement of the group as it unfolds, the SCT approach requires therapists to immediately bring defenses to clients' attention while simultaneously teaching them the skills they need to modify them. The book identifies three discrete phases in group developmentauthority, intimacy, and work - and shows how treatment in each phase comprises a sequenced hierarchy of defense modifications, beginning with the simplest and progressing to the most complex. Portraying SCT work as a partnership in which the therapist governs the structure of the therapy and clients make a series of manageable choices at different "forks-in-the-road, " Agazariandescribes each group meeting as a cohesive "minitherapy" which allows participants to work on problems of varying degrees in a timely and efficient fashion.

Author : Yvonne M. Agazarian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 47,52 MB
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0429919751

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Systems-centered therapy (SCT) brings an innovative approach to clinical practice. Developed by the author, SCT introduces a theory and set of methods that put systems ideas into practice. The collection of articles in this book illustrates the array of clinical applications in which SCT is now used. Each chapter introduces particular applications of SCT theory or methods with specific examples from practice that help the theory and methods come alive for the reader across a variety of clinical contexts. This book will be especially useful for therapists and clinical practitioners interested in sampling SCT, for those who learn best with clinical examples, and for anyone with a serious interest in learning the systems-centered approach.

Author : Susan P. Gantt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,19 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Conflict management
ISBN : 9781855754461

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As this book amply demonstrates, SCT has turned out to have powerful organizational applications. With its theory of living human systems rather than a separate theory of organizations or of organizational behavior, it uses concepts that easily map onto organizational life. It looks at systems as a whole but also in parts. It stresses the importance of understanding boundaries and contexts. It continually focuses on task, and, perhaps, most important of all, it offers a sophisticated understanding of roles, which includes work roles in organizations. It well may be, as more consultants working in organizations become more familiar with the concepts and methods SCT offers, the SCT approach will come to seem indispensable to the resolution of conflict.

Author : Kathy Lum
Publisher : WingSpan Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 10,32 MB
Release : 2010-03
Category :
ISBN : 159594348X

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This exciting book celebrates the work of Dr. Yvonne Agazarian, the developer of the Theory of Living Human Systems and the founder of the Systems-Centered Training and Research Institute. In these pages you will find the seminal "Friends Hospital Series," written from 1992 - 1995, in which she elucidated the fundamental theory and practice of Systems-Centered Therapy in its early form. You will also find essays from leaders in the fields of psychology and organizational development honoring her life and work. For students of the Theory of Living Human Systems, this volume is essential to understanding the development of her ideas. Dr. Agazarian's work exemplifies the finest scholarship and creativity in the application of systems thinking to the fields of clinical and social psychology and organizational development. This book is being published in honor of her 80th birthday. The editorial group worked together using the systems-centered method of functional subgrouping to create it and, as such, it is truly a living product of the Theory of Living Human Systems and its systems-centered practice.