Sense of Coherence as a Meta-Theory for Salutogenic Family Therapy

Resilience has during the last ten years been more and more put into focus. One concept in this domain is “salutogenesis,” coined by Aaron Antonovsky. He claimed that sense of coherence is a vital ingredient in resilience. The sub-concepts of sense of coherence (SOC) are comprehensibility, manageability and meaningfulness that can all be used in a meta model of family therapy. In a lot of research, SOC has shown to be closely correlated to both psychiatric and physical health. We think these concepts are of great interest and importance in forming a meta-theory for family therapy.