Systemic Psychology

Duration

30h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Substitute(s)

Stéphanie Haxhe

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

The course aims an initiation to the systemic psychology and its connections with other disciplines.
It aims an initiation to the bases of a psychology of contexts.
 (1) origins of the systemic approach. (features, practices and contexts of intervention). Concepts of reference in systemic epistemology.
(2) the communication study (normal, pathological and paradoxical).
(3) the system: a structure and an organization (Watzlawick, Selvini, Minuchin Dessoy, Morin, etc).
(4) the system through time (rite of passage, life cycle, environmental stressors)
(5) introductions to various systems and some of their organizational laws (couple, family, siblings, institution, team work, school, etc).

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

- Students will be introduced to the systemic approach and the importance of the contextual view.
They will learn the specific position of the observer involved in what he observes.
They also will learn the specificity and transversality of the laws organizing various systems.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

ex-cathedra lessons with media tools.

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

Face-to-face

Recommended or required readings

to be completed

Assessment methods and criteria

Written examination

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Professor : S. Haxhe Courriel: shaxhe@ulg.ac.be(s.damore@ulg.ac.be )
Assistant : Thérèse Scali Courriel: therese.scali@ulg.ac.be

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