Lecture room: Lögberg – 205. Click for a map.
Working institution
Barne- og ungdomsklinikken. Barneadveling for nevrofag. Seksjon for psykosomatikk og CL-barnepsykiatri. Oslo universitetssykehus HF
Abstract
Is it possible to integrate “SNAP”; Systemic, Narrative, Appreciative Practices in the Context of the late modern Hospital ? Here in Oslo, at the national Hospital of Norway, a team was started as early as in nineteen seventies to try this. Today we in our daily work meet all families and patients with respect and sensitivity; Staying open minded with a broad sight upon both biological, psychological, social and cultural factors. We are working in a careful, listening and dialogical mode.
We also has started a FamilyTeam; offering 4-6 sessions of systemic family therapy with 2 or 3 educated Family-therapists trying to focus on the interaction, relations and resources in the family. Sometimes we talk only with the parents, but we prefer to include both the young patients, the parents, sisters and brothers, and even other significant persons like grandparents or teachers.
All over the country we cooperate with CL-Teams (Cosultation-Liason) dedicated to the growth of the cooperation between Pediatric and Psychiatry. Here too we find “SNAP” utterly relevant. This is the ways working we can make our ecological views come through in real life.
With our models of practice we are building bridges between modern medicine, the classic philosophy and reflecting processes in Family Therapy. Practical examples from our clinical work will be presented. This models is known from Systemic Therapy settings, Psychotherapy and from Social Work. We find them useful for practical Therapy, and in «Interpretation Laboratories» . Trying to understand the concrete human being in a living history going via culture, history and language interpreting oneself as another. Inspired from Systemic, Contextual and Ecological theories we are trying to develop and sharpen our ways of clinical work.