MURRY BOWEN'S FAMILY SYSTEMS THEORY APPLIED TO CLINICAL PRACTICE

11.30 – 12.30
DR. EVAN PARKS
clinical psychologist (Budapest Care Center)

Systems theory is about problems existing in an entire group of people. When a family is dysfunctional, individual people within the family develop symptoms as a result of that dysfunction. The person in the family with the symptom plays an important role in maintaining the normal balance within the family system. If this is true, then it means when helping a person with a problem, one must also work with the family system in some way. Family issues must always be examined, even when conducting individual therapy. We must examine how we are influenced by those around us in the present, how we are influenced by those who were a part of our past, and the role we play in maintaining the stability of a dysfunctional system both past and present.