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An emotional or physical barrier designed to protect or enhance the integrity of an individual or subsystem.
Bowen's term for flight from an unresolved emotional conflict.
What is an emotional cutoff?
An expression of understanding and accepting another's feelings.
What is mirroring?
How members of a system interact.
What is process?
Questions posed which can generally be measured on a scale, usually of 1-10.
What are scaling questions?
This is based on differences that fit together, e.g. ying and yang.
What is a complementary relationship?
Superficial change, no "real" change in how the system functions.
What is first order change?
The structural version of accommodation; a way to avoid resistance.
What is joining?
For example: Yes, I like that, keep doing that.
What is positive feedback?
For example: The sibling, the parent, the girls, or the boys
What is a subsystem?
A method of questioning that highlights the differences between family members.
What is circular questioning?
A contamination of emotional and intellectual functioning; opposite of cutoff.
What is fusion?
This includes both report and command.
What is metacommunication?
Anything that any member of a system does to oppose change.
What is resistance?
"Real" change, which changes the way a system functions
What is second-order change?
For example: You receive a red dress and a blue dress from your mother for your birthday. You wear the red one to dinner that night. Mom asks: Why don't you like the blue dress?
What is a double bind?
For example: All roads lead to Rome.
What is equifinality?
(Equi- Equal; Final- End)
The process by which a system is told to correct its path, to return to homeostasis.
What is a negative feedback loop?
A group who observes a session, and then shares their feedback with the primary therapist (or family) after the session.
What is a reflecting team?
The smallest stable process of human relations.
What is triangulation?
Changes one part of the system (e.g. therapist) makes to better fit/coordinate with the rest of the system
An organism's preferred state; a comfort zone.
What is homeostasis?
Change in the context of stability; a family changing to fit a new context.
What is morphogenesis?
Wynne's term for superficial bickering.
What is pseudo hostility?
An equal relationship.
What is a symmetrical relationship?