Systems-Centered Therapy (SCT) applied to short-term group and individual psychotherapy

Abstract

Systems-centered therapy (SCT) is an approach to group and individual psychotherapy which has been developed in the process of formulating and applying a theory of living human systems to clinical practice. Systems-centered therapists manage the initial stage of flight by refocusing communication into the reality and away from negative predictions about the future or expectations of the repetition of the bad experiences of the past. In the systems-centered approach, patients are not free to import into the therapeutic situation the many ways in which they repeat the mismanagement of their relationships with themselves, others and the world. One of the advantages of SCT as a short-term therapy model is that the steps in defense modification are hierarchical, building one upon the other within each module between each module. In systems-centered therapy, the boundary between apprehension and comprehension is called the boundary of common sense.