Systemic therapy and supervision in multicultural contexts

Abstract

In multicultural contexts systemic thinking is particularly useful, Several procedures are proposed that allow access to persons from a different cultural background, A certain ``alienation effect'' arises from the use of a text of an arabic mystic from the twelfth century. Following his descriptions, seven ``valleys of knowledge'' are assigned to seven areas of acting systemically in multicultural contexts, Theoretical issues are discussed tin particular, the concept of ``expectations of expectations'', as well as the transference of certain systemic methods (e.g., circular questioning, genograms, joining) to this field; both are illustrated by examples.