Systemic Family System Analysis

Different schools TFS (Systemic Family Therapy), rely on a rich epistemology, though not always like because some of its basic concepts come from relatively independent areas. This epistemology is initially fed from three sources; General Systems Theory (Bertalanffy, 1969), cybernetics (Wiener, 1948) and the Theory of Communication (Watzlawick, Beavin, and Jackson, 1967). In addition, the concepts from evolutionary approaches (e.g., Haley, 1981) and structural (e.g., Minuchin, 1974) are key to the systemic conception of the family, so we have put together with the above sources. The result of these theoretical contributions applied to family psychotherapy is the common denominator of the TFS.

Concepts of General Systems Theory A system is

The change in a member of the system affects others since their actions are interconnected by patterns of the interaction patterns operating system are not reducible to the sum of its constituent elements"(Condorelli, R. (2016) p.258). Example: The divestiture of a child can unbalance the relationship between his parents if he fulfilled the role of mediator in conflicts that occurred between them (all). However, separately any member of the family system plays the role that characterizes him in the family system. Circularity: Due to the interconnection between the actions of the members of a system, patterns of causality are never linear (in the sense that a "cause" to provoke an "effect" B) but circular in the sense that B strengthens retroactively manifestation of A. Example: the demands for greater privacy of a member of a couple may collide with the reluctance of the other, which increases the demands of the first and so on.

Equifinality: (refers to how different early experiences in life). The same effect can respond to different causes. That is, the changes observed in an open system are not determined by the initial conditions of the system, but by the very nature of the processes of change. This definition does not apply to closed systems since they are determined by the initial

In such a system, any behavior of a member has a value message for others. Example: The tense silence and staring two strangers who meet in an elevator, despite its non-communicative (or precisely because of it) intentionality convey a lot of information, "do not interest me", "I 'm not in the mood conversationally,” I prefer to ignore "... In all communication must distinguish between aspects of content (digital level) and relational (analog level): While the digital level refers to the semantic content of the communication, the analog level qualifies how they understood the message, i.e., designates what kind of relationship exists between the sender and receiver. The definition of an interaction is determined by the score of the sequences of communication between participants. Open systems are characterized by patterns of circularity, without a clear beginning or end. Thus, the definition of any interaction depends on the way the participants in the communication divide the circular sequence and establish cause-effect relationships. Example: A teenage daughter complains that her mother treats her like a child because she tries to pry information and reacts hiding everything he can. Obviously, the score of the mother is different: she complains that her daughter does not trust her and that thing hidden because it is not mature enough to manage their own life. As will be apparent, the score of a score reinforces the other so that it is