Psychotherapeutically-Systemic Acting in the Integrated Family Counseling Presented by the Example of Child-Centered Educational Counseling

• Published in: Praxis der Kinderpsychologie und Kinderpsychiatrie Vol. 64; no. 1; p. 61
• Main Author: Herrmann, Ines
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: German
• Published: Germany 2015
• Subjects: Adolescent; Child; Child Behavior Disorders - diagnosis; Child Behavior Disorders - psychology; Child Behavior Disorders - therapy; Clergy; Combined Modality Therapy; Cooperative Behavior; Education, Nonprofessional - methods; Family Therapy - methods; Humans; Interdisciplinary Communication; Internal-External Control; Psychotherapy - methods; Religion and Psychology; Systems Theory; relation to psychotherapy; forms of intervention; systemic consulting; child-centered educational counseling; integrated family counseling
• ISSN: 0032-7034
• DOI: 10.13109/prkk.2015.64.1.61

The article gives an insight into the practice of Integrated Family Counseling and identifies their interfaces with psychotherapeutic approaches. The example of the child-centered educational counseling shows how consultancy, systemic and psychotherapeutic interventions interact in order to meet the parents educational needs defined by the parents. The first part of the article explains the term of Integrated Family Counseling, differentiates the various substantive areas of work and outlines the systematic attitude. The second part describes the psychotherapy-systemic action in the child-centered educational counseling from the perspective of the practice. Main priorities in the course of counseling, including cause-related behavioral and developmental diagnostics, play therapy intervention and parental involvement are presented. Here the systemic approach, major methodological elements as well as their effects are pointed up. The third part is devoted to the reflection of the relationship between counseling and psychotherapy. It becomes clear that in particular the intended effectiveness of an intervention determines their methodological design to a large extent.