Sammendrag
Our symposium is based on four ongoing doctoral studies, that focus on systemic therapy within the nationwide Family Counselling Services in Norway. Traditionally, this 50-year old “special service” of diagnose-free and relational oriented therapy, was underpinned by systemic theoretical perspectives. However, the last decade there has been a shift towards a more intra-psychic, normative and linear scope of thinking that challenge the relational underpinnings of systemic therapy in this service. We will present projects on: 1) child involved family mediation 2) aiding children and divorced parents in prolonged conflicts and 3) supporting parents whose children are placed in public care. Further, we will elaborate on interrelatedness of power, expert knowledge and how knowledge is positioning the practice of therapy. We will reflect upon what discourses that embedding the technocracy of helping and whether research itself is limited to normative expert claims or relational knowledge.
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