Jochen Schweitzer- Prof. Dr.
- Managing Director at Heidelberg University
Jochen Schweitzer
- Prof. Dr.
- Managing Director at Heidelberg University
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Social anxiety disorders (SAD) are among the most prevalent mental disorders (lifetime prevalence: 7–12%), with high impact on the life of an affected social system and its individual social system members. We developed a manualized disorder-specific integrative systemic and family therapy (ISFT) for SAD, and evaluated its feasibility in a pilot ra...
Purpose:
Mid-level executives are confronted with many dilemma situations, in which they are forced to decide between conflicting options, none of them leading to the desired result. If they fail to cope with them constructively, their individual risk for mental strains increases (Gerlmaier and Latniak, 2013). Initial findings focusing on executiv...
There is evidence that systemic therapy is effective, but there is little evidence about meaningful moments in systemic therapy in general, and none at all in systemic therapy for social anxiety disorders. Meaningful moments are one of the relevant research objects in change process research, as they contribute to a better understanding of therapeu...
Symbolische Aktionsmethoden bilden eine Gruppe von erlebnisintensivierenden Methoden in systemischer Therapie und Beratung. Dieser Oberbegriff bündelt sehr unterschiedliche Praktiken. Ihnen ist gemeinsam, dass Beziehungen und Beziehungsprozesse einer Familie oder eines anderen Systems visualisiert oder unmittelbar im Beratungsraum bildlich dargeste...
In dit artikel beschrijven we een workshop met drie symbolische actiemethoden: de ‘wie-is-wie-sculptuur’, de techniek van ‘wandelen door de geschiedenis van het team’, en het ‘spreekkoor’ voor een systemische teamconsultatie. Deze actiemethoden zijn behulpzaam bij het werken met grote teams en kleine organisaties; hiermee krijgen teamleden snel mee...
Das Buch beschreibt anschaulich, wie Menschen soziale Ängste entwickeln und wie sie sie überwinden können. Es verbindet Wissenschaft und Praxis – die Autoren stützen sich auf langjährige praktische Erfahrung und auf die Ergebnisse eines Forschungsprojekts. Ein „Werkzeugkasten“ systemischen Arbeitens.
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Zusammenfassung
Wie Führungskräfte mit alltäglichen Dilemmata umgehen, hat Auswirkungen auf die individuelle und organisationale Ressourcenbilanz. Der Artikel untersucht Umgangsstrategien von mittleren Führungskräften mit Zwickmühlen im Krankenhaus, wie sich diese durch ein Dilemma-Kompetenz-Training verändern und wie sich dies wiederum organisatio...
Zusammenfassung
Im Kontext des Praxisforschungsprojekts SYMPA-GB (Systemtherapeutische Methoden in der psychiatrischen Akutversorgung von Menschen mit geistiger Behinderung) fokussierte eine Interviewstudie auf die Analyse der Interaktionen im Multi-Helfersystem von Personen mit geistiger Behinderung, die im Heim leben und aufgrund aggressiven Verh...
This randomized controlled trial (RCT) aimed to pilot the newly developed manualized and monitored systemic therapy (ST) for social anxiety disorder (SAD), as compared to manualized and monitored cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). We conducted a prospective multicenter, assessor-blind pilot RCT on 38 outpatients (ICD F40.1; Structured Clinical Int...
Family relationships form very important social relationships. They provide the social context enabling the development for a healthy personality and fostering social competencies and the capacity for social adjustment. Several constructs constitute a complex sample of health beneficial attributes, such as resilience, sense of coherence,
self-compa...
Introduction: This article describes the development of an Aggression and Restriction Observation Checklist (AROC) for use in residential and in-patient services for adults with intellectual disabilities (ID). The AROC was developed in collaboration between researchers and frontline staff. It assesses self-, person-, and object-directed aggressive...
The Evaluation of Social Systems (EVOS) scale was developed as a measure of the quality of social relationships vis-à-vis context-unspecific aspects of relationship quality. Although constructed for adolescents above the age of 11, it has to date only been validated in adult samples. The current study investigated if EVOS can be applied to adolesce...
Background
A desirable effect (spill-over effect) of patient-related psychotherapy refers to the reduction of burden of significant others. Most studies have concentrated on the significant others of patients with schizophrenia, psychosis and dementia, as well as on child and adolescent psychotherapy.
Objective
This study investigated the effects...
We examine the sensitivity to change in the Evaluation of Social Systems (EVOS) scale, which assesses relationship quality and collective efficacy. In Study 1 we conducted a waitlist-control, short-term couple therapy RCT study (N = 43 couples) with five systemic therapy sessions treating communication and partnership problems; our intent was to pr...
There is a need of an economical, reliable, and valid instrument in the German-speaking countries to measure the burden of relatives who care for mentally ill persons. We translated the Burden Assessment Scale (BAS) and conducted a study investigating factor structure, psychometric quality and predictive validity. We used confirmative factor analys...
How can I tell if it was systemic? An Overview of Systemic Adherence Scales with Reference to Psychotherapeutic Efficacy Studies on Social Anxiety The article discusses adherence to the study manual as an aspect of quality assurance in psychotherapeutic efficacy studies. In this connection, the authors introduce the Systemic Therapy Adherence Scale...
Hintergrund Systemaufstellungen werden als eine Variante von Skulpturverfahren, einem Konzept der systemischen Therapie und Beratung, verstanden. Da sie aufgrund der Praxis einzelner Personen in der Kritik stehen und es zudem an theoretisch begründeten Curricula fehlt, liegt die empirische Untersuchung der ungeklärten Fragen nahe: Was tun Aufstelle...
Background
This study examined relationships between attachment style, eating disorders (EDs), personality variables and family functioning.
Methods
In our study, 253 women (M = 25.72 years, SD = 8.73) were grouped into one of four categories either according to self-reported ED diagnosis or by exceeding cut-offs for a clinical diagnosis on the Ea...
Background ”Competence” as a research concept is associated with numerous attributions, depending on scientific discipline and research question. In this study, the theory of tacit knowledge formulated by Michael Polanyi provides ground for the externalization of therapists’ thoughts and decisions. The method has already been applied in a qualitati...
Aim: There is a need of an economical, reliable and valid instrument in German-speaking region to measure the burden of relatives who care for mentally ill persons. In this study, we translated the Burden Assessment Scale (BAS, Reinhard et al. 1994) into German and conducted a psychometric study.
Methods: We used confirmative factor analyses (CAF,...
Das Durchleben und Durchleiden berufsbezogener Dilemmata gehört zum Alltag vieler Führungskräfte. Unvorbereitet mündet die Konfrontation mit ihnen häufig in Zynismus, Schuldgefühle, Lähmung oder Frustration. Mit dilemmatischen Situationen zu rechnen, sich mit der Struktur von Dilemmata zu beschäftigen und Navigationsstrategien zu entwickeln, kann h...
Sense of coherence (SOC), resilience, dispositional optimism, and self-compassion are highly related aspects of personality that promote health and well-being. We systematically compared these constructs and explored their criterion validity when predicting psychological distress. With the help of structural equation modeling, we examined SOC's fac...
Background:
Social anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent anxiety disorders in the general population. The efficacy of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for social anxiety disorders is well demonstrated. However, only three studies point to the efficacy of systemic therapy (ST) in anxiety disorders, and only two of them especially focus o...
Hintergrund Bisherige Wirksamkeitsstudien weisen auf eine signifikante Reduktion sozialängstlicher Symptomatik durch systemtherapeutische Verfahren hin. Valide Schlussfolgerungen setzen eine kontinuierliche, zuverlässige und valide Qualitätsprüfung der Therapien voraus. Parallel zu einem neuen Manual „Systemische Therapie bei sozialen Angststörunge...
Background: Social anxiety disorders are among the most prevalent anxiety disorders in the general population. Studies investigating support-related (SN) and anxiety-related (AN) social network structure, composition, sustainability and innovation in association with positive and negative social support, social systems functioning and social system...
This article describes useful consultation practices for individual coaching in typical workplace conflict situations. Our approach for understanding of workplace conflicts is based on the differentiation between various “toxic” conflictual constellations (e.g. contradiction, conflict, dilemma and double bind), between difficulties that can and can...
This study presents the theoretical background, development, and psychometric properties of the German and English versions of the Experience in Personal Social Systems Questionnaire (EXIS.pers). It assesses how the members of a personal social system experience their situation within that system. It is designed as a research tool for interventions...
The aim of our study is to identify dilemmas experienced by mid-level managers throughout their daily business as well as their resilience strategies to deal with those dilemmas. Based on this information it is planned to develop a dilemma-focused resilience training. The article summarizes analysis of 18 semi-structured interviews that were conduc...
Next to affective and somatoform disorders, social anxiety disorders are among the three most widespread illnesses of our times. Systemic therapy offers a variety of well-documented approaches for getting to grips with the disorder and has also come up with two efficacy studies explicitly dedicated to social anxiety disorders. The introduction to t...
Social interactions have gained increasing importance, both as an outcome and as a possible
mediator in psychotherapy research. Still, there is a lack of adequate measures capturing
relational aspects in multi-person settings. We present a new measure to assess
relevant dimensions of quality of relationships and collective efficacy regarding interp...
We introduce readers to two questionnaires designed for the economic measurement of change following systemic and other psychosocial interventions. Using identical items and scales, but different instructions, they can be equally used for personal systems (couples, families, households etc.) as for organizational systems (work teams, classroom grou...
In a previous randomized controlled trial (RCT), short-term efficacy of family constellation seminars (FCSs) in a general population sample was demonstrated. In this article, we examined mid- and long-term stability of these effects. Participants were 104 adults (M = 47 years; SD = 9; 84% female) who were part of the intervention group in the origi...
This study compares levels of systemic thinking between Chinese and German systemic family therapists when conceptualizing a clinical case. Furthermore, it explores the relationships between levels of systemic thinking and several variables of clinical training and practice. Eighty-two Chinese and seventy-six German systemic family therapists parti...
Das Konzept ,,Heilung als Gemeinschaftsleistung“ geht von der Prämisse aus, dass die Entwicklung psychischer Störungen ebenso eine (ungewollte und unbewusste) Gemeinschaftsleistung darstellt, wie ihre Heilung eine (bewusste und gewollte) Gemeinschaftsleistung erforderlich macht. In der Praxis entsprechen dem verschiedene Formen von Mehrpersonenther...
Outline of a new questionnaire and dis cussion of the results obtained with it in the Heidelberg RCT study on the ef ficacy of systems constellations.
Initial findings from the Heidelberg RCT study investigating the efficacy of systems constellations were published in the 1/2013 issue of this journal (Weinhold et al., 2013). So far, however, the...
Experience in Social Systems Outline of a new questionnaire and discussion of the results obtained with it in the Heidelberg RCT study on the efficacy of systems constellations. Initial findings from the Heidelberg RCT study investigating the efficacy of systems constellations were published in the 1/2013 issue of this journal (Weinhold et al., 201...
Systemic therapy (ST) is one of the most widely applied psychotherapeutic approaches in the treatment of children and adolescents, yet few systematic reviews exist on the efficacy of ST with this age group. Parallel to a similar study on adults, a systematic review was performed to analyze the efficacy of ST in the treatment of children and adolesc...
This study examined the efficacy of family constellation seminars (FCSs) on individuals' experience in their personal social systems, especially the experience of belonging, autonomy, accord, and confidence. We conducted a single-blind, stratified and balanced, randomized controlled trial. Participants were 208 adults (M = 48 years, SD = 10, 79% wo...
Systemic (family) therapy is a widely used psychotherapy approach. However, most systematic efficacy reviews have focused solely on "family-based treatment" rather than on the theoretic orientation "systemic therapy." We systematically review trials on the efficacy of systemic therapy for the treatment of childhood and adolescent externalizing diso...
The study examined the efficacy of nonrecurring family constellation seminars on psychological health. We conducted a monocentric, single-blind, stratified, and balanced randomized controlled trial (RCT). After choosing their roles for participating in a family constellation seminar as either active participant (AP) or observing participant (OP), 2...
Systemische Therapie wird bei Menschen, bei denen eine schizophrene oder schizoaffektive Psychose diagnostiziert wird, seit den 1950er Jahren praktiziert – nicht überall, aber in psychosozial besonders engagierten psychiatrischen Kliniken und Ambulanzen. Ihre Wirksamkeit ist auch in randomisierten kontrollierten Studien gut belegt. Im vorliegenden...
From 2003 to 2008 a multicentre research project, systems therapy methods in acute psychiatry (SYMPA), attempted to establish structured in-patient treatment based on systemic interventions in German non-university psychiatric hospitals. Utilising multi-professional family systems training for team members in six in-patient wards, its main goal was...
Purpose:
To identify health-promoting strategies employed by experienced physicians in order to define prototypical resilience processes and key aspects of resilience-fostering preventive actions.
Method:
From January 2010 to March 2011, the authors conducted 200 semistructured interviews with physicians of different ages, disciplines, and hiera...
In the past, little empirical research has been devoted to systemic constellations. One conceivable reason for this is the emotional controversy about family constellations as a »systemic« method and the »phenomenological« light in which practitioners have traditionally seen themselves. But the diversification of constellations produced empirical s...
In the past, little empirical research has been devoted to systemic constellations. One conceivable reason for this is the emotional controversy about family constellations as a «systemic»method and the «phenomenological»light in which practitioners have traditionally seen themselves. But the diversification of constellations produced empirical stu...
Über die Familientherapie hinaus hat sich systemisches Denken weite Arbeitsfelder erschlossen, von der Einzel- und Paartherapie über die Supervision bis zur Organisationsentwicklung, in der Medizin und Sozialarbeit wie im Management und der Politikberatung. Das Buch entwickelt, jederzeit praxisbezogen, die theoretischen Konzepte, die hinter systemi...
In der Beschäftigung mit dem demografischen Wandel und der Auseinandersetzung mit alternden Belegschaften stellt sich fast zwangsläufig die Frage, wie es um die Leistungsfähigkeit Älterer bestellt ist.
„Low Performance“ („Niedigleistung“) stellt Führungskräfte in Zeiten von Kosten- und Effizienzdruck, engen Zeitvorgaben und alternden oder schrumpfenden Belegschaften vor eine zentrale Herausforderung: Wie können sie mit Arbeitnehmern umgehen, die nicht die Leistung erbringen, die das Unternehmen in der aktuellen Situation von ihnen erwartet? Der f...
Um die im Buch verwerteten Ergebnisse nachvollziehbar zu machen, möchten wir interessierten Lesern unsere eigenen Erfahrungsgrundlagen beschreiben. Die Herkunft unserer Erkenntnisse ist ähnlich vielfältig wie die von uns anvisierte Leserschaft von Sozialforschern, Personalfachleuten, Führungskräften, Mitarbeitern und Beratern.
Ursprünglich wollten wir das Kapitel, das Sie jetzt gerade zu lesen beginnen, gar nicht schreiben. Es ist spontan kurz vor Fertigstellung des Buches entstanden, als uns Herausgeber und Autoren selbst unverhofft die Debatte um den demografischen Wandel und das Alter(n) einholte.
Unter welchen Bedingungen gelingt gesundes und motiviertes Arbeiten über eine verlängerte Lebensarbeitszeit hinweg? Wie kann konstruktiv mit demografischen Konfliktfeldern im Betrieb umgegangen werden? Diesen und anderen Fragen widmen sich die Autoren auf der Basis wissenschaftlicher Forschung und systemischer Beratungspraxis. Dem Leser verspricht...
Dieser Beitrag antwortet auf die Replik von Ferdinand Buer des Artikels „Wozu keine Wertschätzung? Zur Funktion des Wertschätzungsdefizits in Organisationen“. Missverständliche Eindrücke, die durch die Lektüre der Kritik entstanden sein könnten, werden zurechtgerückt. Darüber hinaus wird dafür geworben, in der Auseinandersetzung mit Organisationen...
Objective:
Assessing long-term effects of a family systems therapy approach (systems therapy methods in acute psychiatry, SYMPA) on occupational stress and interdisciplinary cooperation of team members in three German psychiatric hospitals.
Methods:
Pre-post-follow-up survey using the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and Team Climate Inventory (T...
To analyse pathogenetic and salutogenetic processes of physicians suffering from depression, burnout and drug addiction.
Qualitative follow-up interviews with 32 former physician patients from the Oberbergkliniken hospital group.
Long working hours, bureaucratic restrictions and double burdens of combining family life and professional demands are m...
in large parts newly written book, the former version from 1996 had been sold more than 100.000 times
For the first time in Germany, the multicenter pilot research project SYMPA (systems therapy methods in acute psychiatry) attempted to establish and evaluate a structured inpatient treatment based on systemic interventions in non-university psychiatric hospitals. The main goal was the involvement of patients and their important others based on a th...
The present study takes the form of a cultural comparison of the way in which German (n = 76) and Chinese (n = 82) systemic family therapists understand a given case. In response to a fictitious case example (Walter, 2000), all the participants noted down their therapeutic hypotheses and their intervention strategies. Analysis of these submissions...
Das Kapitel gibt einen kurzen Überblick über die systemischen Grundideen und das Spektrum systemischer Gruppentherapiekonzepte im ambulanten, stationären und teilstationären Kontext. Spezifische Ansätze wie die Aufstellungsarbeit und die systemische Multifamilientherapie werden skizziert. Ein Schwerpunkt wird – mit einem Fallbeispiel – auf das vom...
Warum ist das Gefühl, „nicht (genügend) wertgeschätzt zu werden“, nicht die Ausnahme, sondern die Regel in Organisationen, obwohl es sich doch alle anders wünschen? Auf Basis empirischer Ergebnisse geht der Artikel zunächst der Frage nach, woran (Nicht-)Wertschätzung in Organisationen erkennbar wird. Hieraus lassen sich bereits erste Interventionsi...
What enables physicians to cope efficiently with their every day stressors? Which strategies and attitudes contribute to long term job satisfaction and biopsychosocial health throughout their career? In order to work out the resiliency processes and coping strategies of residents and senior physicians we conducted 200 qualtitative expert interviews...
Arist von Schlippe (AvS): Ich möchte kurz schildern, wie es zu diesem Buch 2 gekommen ist. Am 18. Dezember 2004, ich war noch Vorsitzender der SG, traf sich in Köln eine größere Gruppe, u. a. die Vorstände der beiden Gesellschaften, Kurt Ludewig und Jürgen Kriz, um eine Grundsatzentscheidung darüber zu treffen, ob wir noch einmal den Weg gehen, uns...
Zusammenfassung Supervisoren werden immer häufiger mit den emotionalen und sozialen Auswirkungen von effizienzgetriebenen Umstrukturierungen
und Prozessoptimierungen konfrontiert. Anhand von Fallbeispielen und konzeptionellen Überlegungen geht der Artikel der Frage
nach, ob und wie die dabei häufig strapazierte Resilienz der betroffenen Mitarbeiter...
Objectives: The conditions for successful cooperation in medical networks were analysed using the example of the Netzwerk Essst?rungen im Ostalbkreis e. V. (NEO; Ostalbkreis Network for Eating Disorders). The questions under investigation were: What motivates participants to join the network? Which expectations were fulfilled and which disappointme...
