A new model of health and healing is needed for sick children and young people
and their families. Traditional models of healing promote a body-mind split,
which can make for a lack of connection between helping professionals, and
neglect collaboration with young people and their families. Systemic healing is
described as a new approach to health that is rooted in multiple theories and
integrates ecosystemic concepts and biopsychosocial models of health. Clinical
application of systemic healing is achieved with the ecosystemic biopsychosocial
grid (EBG). The EBG is a tool that can be used to facilitate the formation of an
interdisciplinary collaborative goal, to conceptualize obstacles and resources
relative to the goal, and to design focused systemic interventions that
reverberate throughout multiple contexts of the sick person’s life.
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