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This is the founder for intergenerational theory.
Who is, Murray Bowen?
This is a three person system.
What is, a triangle?
A 100 point scale broken into quadrants, with 0 equaling no self and 100 equaling realized self.
What is, differentiation of self scale?
A schematic diagram of the family system (includes over three generations to help determine critical turning points in the family emotional process, characteristics of family members, and provide an evolutional picture of the family.
What is, a genogram?
This term describes the therapist's role or stance as one of helping the clients start a life-long process of self-discovery and differentiation.
What is, coaching?
This is how problems develop.
What is, a lack of differentiation?
This occurs when two people in conflict bring in a third person as a 'release' for anxiety, however it only freezes that conflict.
What is, triangulation?
The concept of passing on chronic anxiety from one generation to the next.
What is, multigenerational transmission process?
Optimal family development occurs when these three things happen.
1. members are well differentiated, 2. anxiety is low, 3. partners are in emotional contact with their own families.
"I would like to spend more time with you" instead of "Why are you always spending so much time with your sister" is an example of what kind of statement/position?
What is, the "I Position"?
Theory of change: This is lowered within the current family system and between the current family and families-of-origin as a result of understanding multigenerational or current family dynamics.
What is, anxiety?
This is a core concept of Bowenian therapy, associated with fusion of intellect and emotion.
What is, anxiety?
This term describes emotional stuck-togetherness or fusion of the family - prominent in schizophrenic families.
What is, undifferentiated family ego mass?
Emotional fusion is based on THIS type of attachment, which may be manifested as either dependency or isolation.
What is, anxious attachment?
A person who is not differentiated may be fused with another person. As a result, he does not reason from his own values, but instead borrows the values of the person with who he is fused and commonly makes emotionally reactive choices.
What is, pseudo self?
What are the roles of the therapist in couple's therapy? (four)
1. avoiding taking sides in the triangle, 2. force couples to deal with each other, 3. take an "I" position (teach family members how to state their needs and thoughts without overreacting), 4. make non-reactive observations and statements of opinion.
This term describes independence of self from others and the ability to separate intellect from emotion.
What is, differentiation of self?
Bowen's term for flight from an unresolved emotional attachment.
What is, emotional cutoff?
This is the underlying factor in the beginning of psychological problems. It is passed down from one generation to the next.
What is, emotional fusion?
A person who is well differentiated and is able to function based upon a personally defined set of values, beliefs, convictions, and life principles.
What is, solid self?
This is the role of the therapist in individual therapy. (three)
1. develop the person-to-person relationships, 2. see family members as people rather than emotionally charged images, 3. learn to recognize triangles.
This describes the mechanism by which parental conflicts are projected onto a child or spouse.
What is, family projection process?
This term describes the blurring of psychological boundaries between self and others.
What is, fusion?
It is not the crisis, that creates the behavior disorder, but WHAT?
What is, the RESPONSE to the crisis?
The concept of withdrawing from an existing triangle so that the person is now drawn into the conflict between the other two, often the parents.
What is, detriangulation?