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Systemic Practice
Author(s) -
GIACOMO DANIEL,
WEISSMARK MONA
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1986.00483.x
Subject(s) - systemic therapy , action (physics) , set (abstract data type) , psychology , clinical practice , order (exchange) , computer science , medicine , nursing , business , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , cancer , breast cancer , programming language
In this paper we propose to develop a methodology, based on a set of isomorphic patterns of practice, for studying the operational competencies of systemic therapists. By attending to the therapists' actions at the level of practice, we have identified unifying principles that run across the different models of systemic family therapy. This is a pattern of action that we call “systemic practice.” In order to show the application of this methodology in the art of practice, we have analyzed excerpts from two videotaped sessions.