Sociology

Families are composed of individuals who share the same specific physical and psychological space.  As todays environment includes a diversity of forms and complexities, each of these systems contain specific properties and rules that create an organized power structure, and develops intricate forms of communication.  The Family Systems Theory puts a special emphasis on this multi-systemic approach used in developing a collaborative team to coordinate participants of the numerous systems included in the family environment.  This principle is most interesting in todays environment, especially since, in this system, the individuals are tied to one another by powerful, durable, reciprocal, multigenerational emotional attachments and loyalties that may fluctuate in intensity and psychological distances between members (Goldenberg  Goldenberg, 2008, p.1).  The technique, therefore, is to develop a collaborative team that would develop good relationships with the participating systems (e.g., school, hospital, mental health center).

From this model, I would most likely integrate the multi-systemic approach in family therapy because it is important to understand each of the systems active in the given environment, and for each of these systems to collaborate with one another, forming a collaborative team that would ease a number of constraints.  On the other hand, the aspect of the Family Systems Theory that I would least likely incorporate in my approach to family therapy would be the Stage Model, which states that there are stages through which families typically pass while predicting the approximate time when each stage is reached (Goldenberg  Goldenberg, 2008, p.31).  For me, there is no need to take into account the stages in which the individuals typically pass, especially since analysis of the individuals appear to be more important than analyzing the stages in which they pass.  The Managed Care Model would be more interesting, estimating that there should be a brief, time-limited therapy approaches integrated in the technique, one that is more holistic in nature.