Module PY4208-KP04

Systemic thinking and acting in psychological fields of work (SystGes)


Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

on request

Credit points

4

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

  • Master Psychology - Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy 2022, optional subject, psychology
  • Master Psychology - Cognitive Systems 2027, optional subject, psychology
  • Master Psychology - Cognitive Systems 2022, optional subject, psychology

Classes and lectures:

  • PY4208-S: Systemic thinking and acting in psychological fields of work (seminar, 2 SWS)

Workload:

  • 30 hours in-classroom work
  • 90 hours privat studies (including essay)

Contents of teaching:

  • Current research and debates in prevention und health promotion, including the following topics:
  • Models and action concepts of systemic counselling
  • Examination of systemic concepts and ways of thinking
  • Reflection on solution- and resource-oriented perspectives in the counselling context
  • Fundamentals of systemic counselling technics and intervention
  • Perspectives on mental health from a systemic perspective

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

  • Students possess basic concepts, theories, models and methods in the field of systemic counselling
  • Students possess systemic counselling techniques
  • They actively engage with systemic attitudes
  • Students possess skills in the application of solution- and resource-oriented work and conversation techniques in a counselling context
  • Participants deepen the systemic interventions and questioning techniques they have learnt in peer groups/learning groups/intervention groups
  • Students deepen the systemic interventions and questioning techniques they have learnt in peer groups/learning groups/intervention groups

Grading through:

  • term paper

Responsible for this module:

Literature:

  • Von Schlippe, A., & Schweitzer, J. (2016) : Lehrbuch der systemischen Therapie und Beratung I: das Grundlagenwissen Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
  • Schweitzer, J., & Von Schlippe, A. (2015) : Lehrbuch der systemischen Therapie und Beratung II: das störungsspezifische Wissen Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
  • Barthelmess, M. (2016) : Die systemische Haltung: was systemisches Arbeiten im Kern ausmacht Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht

Language:

  • offered only in German

Notes:

Admission requirements for taking the module:
- None

Admission requirements for participation in module examination(s):
- Regular and successful participation in the course / compulsory attendance of at least 80%

Module examination(s):
- PY4208-L1: Systemic health promotion, seminar assignment: Implementation of systemic counseling, 100% of the module grade (ungraded, B certificate)

Last Updated:

14.11.2025