Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 85 No. 3, 2015.
Original scientific paper
A Systematic Approach in Pastoral of Marriage and Family in Crisis
Ivan Štengl
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In the centre of attention of theology and social sciences is the human being in his/her multidimensional unity. While psychotherapy promotes the human being in his/her psycho-social development and tries to address his/her existential and psycho-somatic suffering, theology and pastoral work follow his/her journey of growing up and his/her experience in faith. Both are, therefore, paying attention to an individual person or targeted groups, while their activities are less centred on the basic community of life and faith – the family. A certain turnabout in this paradigm is family, i.e. systematic and ecological psychotherapies that are trying to make up for the deficiencies of an individual approach and there is an interest in their application in the pastoral practice. By pointing out determinants of these psychotherapies in interpreting nonfunctional behaviours and phenomena of disorders, goals that they set in their activity, and insights into models of intervention, the sensibility of a pastoral worker for noticing and understanding problems should be increased and possible directions of a specific engagement should be opened. At the same time, the psychotherapeutic and pastoral practice has to pay attention to the overall context of family: to consequences of permanent changes in society, culture, and economy, to its definition, heterogeneity of its structure, understanding of identity and identification, and to its value system. All of this prevents the formation of one unique psycho-social profile of family and its members individually, or to create a general pattern of specific interactions.
Keywords
systematic and family psychotherapies; pastoral of family; family and marriage dynamics; psycho-social development; disorder as an indicator of psychopathology of a system
Hrčak ID:
147993
URI
Publication date:
28.10.2015.
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