Um olhar sobre a família na perspetiva sistémica – o processo de comunicação no sistema familiar

In this paper the main aim is to reflect about families from a systemic and communicative perspective, and about human experience of family members, bearing in mind that each member is interacting with all others. The systemic view of communication seeks to understand the interactions that occur within the family system. This systemic view considers the family as a whole. Family members interact and communicate to establish relationships that serve to keep the system in balance. The system imbalance may cause imbalance in the individual and vice versa. Since the family is a system of interconnected and continuous relations, when there is change in one family member, there's change in other members. Knowing that a person lives in different systems, they influence each other. Thus by looking at family systems perspective in considering the process of communication in the family system, we wanted to examine the dynamics that led to the change of the system, the limits of the concept of family, family systems approach and the communication process within the family system.