Systemic therapy is a highly beneficial therapy for a variety of problems, as well as for individuals who have emotional difficulties in relating to others. It aims to discover strengths and overcome challenges from a relational perspective.

What is Systemic Therapy?

Systemic therapy is a type of family therapy. It aims to reduce distress and conflict by improving interaction systems between family members. It tries to identify rooted patterns in the individual's relationships and relationships with family members.

What Can Help?

Systemic treatment helps to resolve the negative effects of the following conditions:

• Eating disorders
• Low self esteem
• Social or digital media addictions and concerns
• Child and adolescent behavior problems
• Medically unexplained symptoms and body-related problems
• Relationship stress or communication problem
• Bipolar disorder
• Problems in infancy; sleep, feeding, and attachment difficulties
• Child abuse
• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Substance abuse

How Does it Work?

The duration of systemic therapy can vary between 6 and 20 sessions depending on the problems that arise. Sessions involve bringing family members together with a therapist to discuss issues affecting their relationship.

A family tree is drawn to help everyone think about the relationship patterns in their family. Questions are asked by the therapist to encourage reflection on each person's beliefs, values, needs, hopes, and assumptions to help facilitate understanding and new ways of thinking. The therapist helps everyone begin to explore how they can work together towards a common goal.

These sessions are tailored to the therapy goals and the ages, needs, resources and preferences of the individuals involved. Therefore, not every session is applied in the same way for everyone.

What are the Types of Systemic Therapy?

Systemic therapy are as follows:

• Individual Psychotherapy: It is an example of systemic therapy that combines the theories of Sigmund Freud with those of systems theory. It works to resolve the motivations and behavioral patterns that affect an individual's life, relationships and circumstances.
• Family Therapy: Focuses on patterns among individuals that affect or impede the potential for change within the family system.
• Group Therapy: It can be applied to group dynamics as well as family dynamics.

Benefits of Systemic Therapy

The main benefits of systemic therapy are as follows:

• It gives individuals tools to help them better understand themselves. Therefore, it allows the person to understand himself.
• It helps individuals to understand the different perspectives they have in different contexts.
• Systemic therapy provides an opportunity for individuals to become empowered in their own lives. It helps an individual take responsibility for their life rather than relinquishing control or handing over authority to an expert.
• It teaches individuals how to communicate with others in more effective ways.
• Systemic therapy helps individuals identify core beliefs that can be destructive to their lives, such as perfectionism or the need to please others before themselves.
• It helps individuals identify their own strengths and resources.
• It helps people develop more empathy for others.

FAQ

What is the Efficiency of Systemic Treatment?

Systemic family therapy is known to be an effective treatment for children as well as adolescents.

What are Therapy Techniques?

Many techniques are used during systemic therapy. Some of these are as follows:

• Circular Inquiry: Helps the therapist explore a problem from different angles to identify the underlying problem.
• Conceptualization: Helps the therapist place the client's symptoms in context that spans time and space. It looks at how the individual experience is part of larger patterns within the person, family, community, or culture.
• Reframing: It involves determining how the client sees himself. In this way, it offers an alternative perspective that can help deepen or broaden the self-understanding.