Systemic family therapy

Systemic family therapy is a modern and widespread in the west direction of psychological assistance to patients and their families. Sociological surveys conducted in the United States show that more than 70% of family therapists work on the basis of system methodology.
Systemic family therapy is not just a new technique, but a different way of seeing and solving problems that is different from individual therapy. At its origins were such classics of psychotherapy as Murray Bowen, Jay Hayley, Virginia Satir, Sal-vador Minuhin, Mara Selvini Palazzoli and other brilliant therapists.

Psychotherapists of various schools and directions have long noticed that returning to a real family after a therapeutic course can destroy the most encouraging changes in patients, discarding them to previous patterns of behavior and stereotypical reactions. Other para-doxal consequences of successful individual therapy can be a sharp deterioration in the marital relationship, the emergence of new problems and diseases in other members of the family.
Such phenomena gave impetus to the development of systemic family therapy, in which the entire family began to act as the object of therapeutic aid and the focus of therapy shifted from intrapsychic conflicts to the problems of detecting and changing dysfunctional models of interactions between members of the family system.

This program provides an opportunity to get acquainted with the theory and practice of modern family therapy. The first year of study involves mastering the basic knowledge and skills of working with a family and a married couple. The second year of study is devoted to the study of the features of family systems associated with various mental disorders, the expansion by participants of their range of technical skills and the integration of different approaches in family therapy.