Types of Systems Psychology
In the scientific literature different kind of systems psychology have been mentioned:
- Applied systems psychology
- In the 1970s the term applied systems psychology was being used as a specialism directly related to engineering psychology and human factor.
- Cognitive systems theory
- Cognitive systems psychology is a part of cognitive psychology and like existential psychology, attempts to dissolve the barrier between conscious and the unconscious mind.
- Contract-systems psychology
- Contract-systems psychology is about the human systems actualization through participative organizations.
- Family systems psychology
- Family systems psychology is a more general name for the subfield of family therapists. E.g. Murray Bowen, Michael E. Kerr, and Baard and researchers have begun to theoretize a psychology of the family as a system.
- Organismic-systems psychology
- Through the application of organismic-systems biology to human behavior Ludwig von Bertalanffy conceived and developed the organismic-systems psychology, as the theoretical prospect needed for the gradual comprehension of the various ways human personalities may evolve and how they could evolve properly, being supported by a holistic interpretation of human behavior.
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