I Beg to Differ
The capacity to think, reflect, and not respond automatically to emotional pressures. (p.44)
What is: Differentiation of Self
Bowen was a pioneer in family therapy as this type of mental health professional. (p. 44)
What is: Psychiatrist
This is the process that describes predicable patterned moves of emotional forces between any three people. (p. 49)
What is: Triangulation
The concept that unresolved issues are passed down across generations is know as this. (p. 51)
What is: Multigenerational Transmission Process
This is the smallest amount of people in a stable relationship, according to Bowen. (p. 49)
What is: Three
This phase of Bowen's theory involves the therapist engaging the client's best thinking and establishes a collaboration in which each is responsible for self. (p.56)
What is: Phase 1 -Joining and Building Rapport
People who live in a "feelings-controlled" world, in which theirs emotions and subjectivity dominate objective reasoning most of the time Bowen described as this.
What is: Undifferentiated
On Bowen's scale of differentiation a person who is more flexible, more adaptable, and more emotionally independent is said to be this kind of differentiated person. (p.48)
What is: "Higher" differentiated person
Murray Bowen served in this war. (p. 44)
What is: World War II
The therapist's initial goal when working with a family in order to stay impartial in known as this. (p. 54)
What is: Detriangulation
This concept views marital partners deriving their interactions with each other from a specific position in their individual families of origin. (p.51-52)
What is: Sibling Position
A tool used to record biographic data. (p. 56)
What is a genogram
What is: Phase 3 - Assessment of Family Dynamics
Bowen said that a therapist's primary goal when working with a family was to remain this. (p. 54)
A person's basic level of differentiation is established early in life and said to come from a person's ____? (p. 47)
What is: Family of Origin
Bowen's early clinical work focused on this MH disorder in individuals first, and later in families. (p. 44)
What is: Schizophrenia
This form of emotional tension can move through a family quickly causing emotional closeness and/or dysfunction in relationships. (p. 49)
What is: Anxiety
The concept that unresolved and undifferentiated parental issues are passed down to their children is known as this. (p.50-51)
What is: Family Projection Process
**DAILY DOUBLE**
This system is seen as the bridge between the emotional and intellectual system.
(p. 46)
What is: The Feeling's System
This phase involves the therapist guiding the client's thinking to place symptoms in the context of a multigenerational family system by inquiring about time, place, and significant events surrounding the onset of symptoms. (p. 57)
What is: Phase 2 - Understanding the Presenting Issue
This is an organism's response to a threat; real or imagined, as defined by Bowen.
What is: Anxiety
Bowen describes this unhealthy process of becoming so intermeshed in a relationship you become an "emotional hostage". (p. 47)
What is: Fusion
Where Bowen initiated a project hospitalizing entire families containing a schizophrenic member. (P. 44)
What is the National Institute of Mental Health
Each person in the initial triangle is likely a part of other triangles known as these. (p. 49)
What are: Interlocking Triangles
Marital conflict, dysfunction in one spouse, emotional distance, and emotional impairment are symptomatic patterns involved in this Bowen concept. (p. 50)
What is: Nuclear Family Emotional System
This concept describes how some people manage anxiety in relationships by moving away or staying, but avoiding sensitive issues. (p. 52)
What is: Emotional Cutoff
In this phase, the therapist seeks to establish a broader perspective on family functioning so that the family members are more naturally motivated to continue beyond the symptom focus. (p. 59)
What is: Phase 5 - Amplifying Change
Differentiation is a life-long process, not an achievable destination. Clients decide when they have worked enough on self surrounding the presenting issue, then they enter into this last phase of Bowen therapy. (p. 60)
What is: Phase 6 - Termination
This is created when someone gives up or rearranges their authentic self for the sake of togetherness. (p.47)
What is: Pseudo-selves
Bowen developed this type of thinking as a way to conceptualize human behavior. (p. 46)
What is: Systems Thinking
A third person (such as a therapist) or a member of a triangle can limit dysfunction and modify the triangle as a whole by changing this predicative interaction. (p. 50)
What is: Emotional Reactivity
This Bowen concept describes problematic issues developed by children in a system such as, excessive need for attention and approval, difficulty dealing with expectations, blaming self or others for problems...etc. (p. 50-51)
What is: Family Projection Process
This concept addresses ways that families shape society and society shapes families. (p. 52)
What is: Societal Emotional Process.
In this phase, the therapist asks productive questions such as "from our conversation today, what patterns are you interested in changing?" or "for future generations in your family, what do you hope they achieve?" (pg.58-59)
What is: Phase 4 - Goals
Bowen described this concept as as "immature separation of people from each other." (pg. 52)
What is: Cutoff