Introduction
Watching films or reading articles about different people gives therapist insight on potential real life situations. Case studies allow therapist to watch how certain things unfold from a different perspective. By using other tools such as films to depict certain theories relating to marriage and family therapy it gives therapist the opportunity to learn new ideas to bring into therapy sessions with clients.
The film reviewed was Meet The Fockers, a film made in 2004 that demonstrates the stereotypical struggle of power between two families coming together. The struggle of power between Greg Focker and Jack Brynes is clear throughout the movie. Both characters views on the family are polar opposites. When Greg’s parents are introduced in the film, it is apparent where he got his systemic basis of thinking. The film shows the Fockers struggle to get Jack Brynes acceptance. Greg Focker and Pam Brynes were in love, however Jack’s stern ideas on the family put a strain on the …show more content…
By having the observer apart of the system the observer can no longer just draw conclusions about the dysfunction like in first order, but in second order the problem or dysfunction is extraneous and the change made within a system is considered to be a shift in context within the system. Second order cybernetics includes parts of epistemology participation, non-purposeful drift, and reality as a multiverse. Epistemology of participation is the idea that members of the systems are constantly interacting, evolving, adjusting, and changing to mechanisms. In the movie, this is seen when the two different systems start two interact and adjust to each other. The Bryne’s did not just accept the Fockers, however it is seen throughout the whole film how each member of each system started evolving and changing into one big system rather than two doubtful
Watching films or reading articles about different people gives therapist insight on potential real life situations. Case studies allow therapist to watch how certain things unfold from a different perspective. By using other tools such as films to depict certain theories relating to marriage and family therapy it gives therapist the opportunity to learn new ideas to bring into therapy sessions with clients.
The film reviewed was Meet The Fockers, a film made in 2004 that demonstrates the stereotypical struggle of power between two families coming together. The struggle of power between Greg Focker and Jack Brynes is clear throughout the movie. Both characters views on the family are polar opposites. When Greg’s parents are introduced in the film, it is apparent where he got his systemic basis of thinking. The film shows the Fockers struggle to get Jack Brynes acceptance. Greg Focker and Pam Brynes were in love, however Jack’s stern ideas on the family put a strain on the …show more content…
By having the observer apart of the system the observer can no longer just draw conclusions about the dysfunction like in first order, but in second order the problem or dysfunction is extraneous and the change made within a system is considered to be a shift in context within the system. Second order cybernetics includes parts of epistemology participation, non-purposeful drift, and reality as a multiverse. Epistemology of participation is the idea that members of the systems are constantly interacting, evolving, adjusting, and changing to mechanisms. In the movie, this is seen when the two different systems start two interact and adjust to each other. The Bryne’s did not just accept the Fockers, however it is seen throughout the whole film how each member of each system started evolving and changing into one big system rather than two doubtful