PYC 4808
ECOSYSTEMIC PSYCHOLOGY

ASSIGNMENT 03
NUMBER: 842914

42056829

Table of content Page
Introduction p 3
1. A three- generational genogram p 4
2. A Ecological map of the Bird Family in Context p 5
3 (a) The story as seen from the perspective of each one of the family members p 6
(b)The story from the vantage point of the family’s position in the family cycle p 7
4. A first- order cybernetic description of the case p 7
* Recursion p 8
* Feedback p 8
* Morphostasis/Morphogenesis p 9
* Rules and boundaries p 10
5. A second-order cybernetic description of the case p 10
* Wholeness and Self-Reference p 12
* Autopoiesis p 12
* Structural Determinism p 12
* The Epistemology of Participation p 13
* Structural Coupling p 13
Conclusion p 13
References p 14

Introduction
Ecosystemic psychology emphasises as central idea that the patterns which connect, rather than the thing in itself, is important. Applied to the domain of living systems, a focus emerges which regards

the process of living, or the relational system through which people live, as the subject matter of our observations, descriptions and research (TUT 101, PYC 4808: p 5).
In the following discussion we are going to consider and discuss a given case study from first and second order cybernetics by applying first and second order cybernetic principles. We explore what the individual perspectives of the family members may be and the vantage point of the family’s position in the family’s life cycle. We are also going to construe a three-generational genogram of the given family system as well as an ecological map of the family in context.

1. A Three- Generational Genogram of the Bird family

2. An Ecological Map (ecomap) of the Bird Family in Context

3(a) The story as seen from the perspective of each of...
. The story as probably seen from the perspective of each