Bowen Family Systems
Who is the key figure/creator of Bowen Family Systems theory or Intergenerational Family Systems Theory?
Murray Bowen, Micheal Kerr, Philip Guerin, Thomas Fogarty, Monica McGoldrick, Betty Carter, David Schnarch
This therapy, developed by Carl Whitaker, emphasizes being real and fully present with clients
The two main founders of SFBT _______ and ________.
Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg
True or False: People are experts of their own lives
True
Used both as an assessment tool and dan intervention, a visual representation of intergenerational patterns and inspires commitment to change
Genograms
What are the two main goals of Bowen Therapy?
Increase each person’s level of differentiation, and decrease emotional reactivity and chronic anxiety within the system
Symbolic-Experiential Therapy often uses play, absurdity, and this form of humor to provoke change
What is therapeutic humor
Scaling questions in SFBT are typically rated from these two numbers
0 to 10
This core process helps clients see themselves as more than their problems by focusing on unique experiences
Unique outcomes
(What Intervention and what Theory) The process of taking the problem out of the person by objectifying and personifying it “the person is not the problem, the problem is the problem“
Externalization
The importance of the family taking _________ for change after structure is established, must be “won” by the family.
What is Battle of Initiative
This key question asks clients to imagine that their problem was suddenly solved overnight.
Miracle Question
These intentional documents or rituals are sometimes used to reinforce the new preferred story ________.
Therapeutic Letters
The therapist does not hesitate to speak their mind, sharing their experience Or fantasies, all interventions should be performed ___________.
Spontaneity
How do they conceptualize problems and change relationally/systemically?
change by identifying inter generational patterns that surround problem, for example parenting, managing conflict, balancing auto money with togetherness, establishing rules and creating legacies
The therapist may deliberately create situations that increase the family’s anxiety to stimulate growth
SFBT therapists often focus on what clients are doing right instead of pathologizing. This is known as ________.
Strengths-based approach
Narrative therapists help clients develop a preferred way of understanding their life events. This is called ________.
Re-authoring
What is one method of management that helps symbolic therapy maintain and broaden perspective?
What is Co-therapist, using a co-therapist
What are the 8 core concepts of Bowen family Systems Theory and explain all 8 (short description)?
Differentiation of Self, Triangles, Nuclear Family Emotional System, Family Projection Process, Multigenerational Transmission Process, Sibling Position, Emotional Cutoff, Societal Emotional Process
What is are the main goals of symbolic?
symptom relief, growth, cohesion, creating trans generational boundary
What are the three phases of SFBT?
Assessment Phase, Intervention Phase,Termination Phase
What are the five stages of the narrative therapeutic process?
Stage One: Define the problem: describing the problem; naming the problem; therapist notetaking
Stage Two: Map the Influence: Questions
Stage Three: Evaluate and justify and the facets of the problem
Stage Four: Identify unique outcomes
Stage Five: Re-storying, an alternative narrative is attached to each unique outcome
the process of deassembling stories to generate a new perspective
What is Deconstructing (Narrative therapy)