This word, beginning with the letter "a", is the major influence on the activity of triangles.
What is anxiety?
100
This word, beginning with the letter "u", describes people who are easily moved to emotionality and driven by reactivity to those around them.
What is undifferentiation?
100
This word, beginning with the letter "a", is what is reflected in generational patters to describe how people manage it.
What is anxiety?
100
This is when a person seeks distance by moving away, avoids personal conversation, and insulates themselves with the presene of third parties to flee from unresolved emotional attachment.
What is the emotional cutoff?
100
Issues within a family, according to Bowen, show up in either the marital relationship, health of one of the partners, or here.
What is one of the children?
200
This word, beginning with the letter "s", is the driving force people talk to others about their problems.
What is sympathy?
200
A differentiated person is able to seperates thinking from these.
What are feelings?
200
This level of differentiation of self is the level that people predictably seek when selecting mates.
What is the same level of differentiation?
200
This happens when people with limited emotional resources and lack of differentiation project all their needs onto each other.
What is emotional fusion?
200
When parents "project" their problems onto their children, this is what it is called. This can also cause each child to side with one parent over the other.
What is the family projection process?
300
This word, which trianglution does to the conflict by involving a third person and stabilizing the original relationship, is also a term for an alternate route during road construction.
What is detour?
300
These two words, both beginning with the letter "a", describe what a well-differentiated person does NOT need.
What are acceptance and approval?
300
In Bowen family systems theory, this is one of the main reasons for researching one's family of orgin and multigenerational patterns.
What is to view behavior patterns?
300
This refers to the person's parents and siblings or orginal nuclear family.
What is family of orgin?
300
Even though Bowen techniques are used in family therapy, most sessions are conducted this way.
What is one-on-one therapy?
400
This is how many triangles may occur in a Father, Mother, Daughter relationship (3 people).
What is 3?
400
This concept describes the capacity to think and reflect and to not respond automatically to emotional pressures.
What is Differentiation of Self?
400
The nature and the degree of intensity of these are passed down from generation to generation.
What are emotional responses?
400
This was Bowen's initial term for emotional "stuck togetherness" or fusion in the family.
What is undifferentiated family ego mass?
400
These are designed to slow people down, diminish anxiety, and start them thinking about how they participate in interpersonal problems.