Name: Vhugala Petunia Phuravhathu

Student number: 60599642

Module code and name: Ecosystemic Psychology

PYC4808

Assignment number and unique number: 886939

Assignment number 1

Assignment due date: 2023-05-17

 Modernist perspective
Progressive Postmodernist perspective Subjectivity
Rational Critique
Controllable Second-order cybernetics from Diversity
Individualistic the Postmodernist point of Relativism
Scientific view. Deconstruction
Rather than discovering behaviour,
Problem-solving Ambiguity
we create it; believing is seeing,
Systemic Individuality
Communicative and how we “language,” or choose Language
words to describe something, Intertextuality
The observer has no control and is not
part of what is being observed. becomes crucial(Becvar & Becvar Reflexivity
From the perspective of first-order cybernetics, therapists/theorists 2004:94).
describe what is going on inside the system from a position outside the
System (Becvar & Becvar 2004:93).
African Epistemologies/Indigenous
Integration Knowledge Systems African epistemologies
Holism or indigenous
Communalism knowledge systems in
Ancestral family therapy are
Oral Tradition influenced by the belief
Spirituality that the universe Meaning is derived from the relation between
Interconnectedness consists of visible and individuals and elements as each defines the other.
Ubuntu invisible forces that are Therapy is influenced by the realities of everyone
Rituals closely connected involved, including the larger societal context in
Healing despite being separate. which it occurs (Becvar & Becvar 2004:70).
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