title: [Systemic viewpoint and psychotherapeutic ethics--four imperatives].
abstract: Systems (e.g. families) tend to reduce the behavioral options of their members (a process that is usually called "trivialization"). The task of systemic therapy is to help in constructing "realities" that widen the range of possible options in a system. This demand is a value-decision as base of an ethics of systemic therapy. It is concretized in four ethical "imperatives": (1) Think and act ecologically valid! (2) Be aware of the definitions and evaluations that you make! (3) Be aware of your personal responsibility! (4) Try to create meaningful differences in a respectful way! Following these prescriptions the systemic therapist can choose interventions out of a wide range of possible behaviors, and thus has him-/herself an optimum of choices.
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authors.lastname: Von Schlippe
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005196:Family Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D010553:Personality Development; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011340:Problem Solving; D012931:Social Environment
vernacular_title: Systemische Sichtweise und psychotherapeutische Ethik--vier Imperative.