Sollen wir wieder wissen, wo’s langgeht? Gedankengänge zur Vermittlung des systemischen Psychotherapieverständnisses in der Ausbildung

The socio-economical ecosystem in the health and social sector is increasingly influenced by ideas of neoliberalist cost-benefit optimization and standardization. Clients and their disorders are to be treated with specific psychotherapeutic techniques to achieve socially desirable therapeutic goals as efficiently as possible. This creates increasing tension in systemic training institutions. Traditionally, these training institutions represent a different therapeutic approach. At the same time, they want to prepare their students for current expectations that they will have to face. The authors (one a long-term teacher in an Austrian training institute for systemic therapy, the other one only recently appointed as a teacher) discuss the necessity of (self)critical reflexion of possible future developments.