PSYC-3740 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Salvador Minuchin, Murray Bowen, Structural Dynamics

• School: University of Winnipeg
• Department: PSYCHOLOGY
• Course: PSYC-3740
• Professor: Gary Rockman

Document Summary

Emphasizes the dynamic orderings of the system itself, the actual structure within which elements of communication take place. Emphasis on the context of family interactions. This distinguishes the structural theorists from the communication theorists who emphasize the how of family interactions. Diagnosis and tx related to the systems organizational dynamics (how the systems are organized) System may be as large as the entire family or as small as any dyad within the family. Disclaimer: need to keep in mind that the family"s role in the etiology and tx of an is one of many factors. Minuchin has criticized the behavioural and psychodynamic approaches as focusing on the individual patient. He focuses on the individual but also the individual in context of the family. System approaches analyses the behavioural and psychological make-up of the individual by investigating the in uences that the family member have on each other.