Bowen Family Therapy
Nagy Contextual Family Therapy
Name that Theorist
Identifying the Systemic Context
100
According to Bowen, THIS is the smallest NUMBER of people to make a stable unit during times of stress and conflict.

What is 3?

100

This deepens as trustworthiness grows.

What is loyalty?

100

He combined object relations and intergenerational theories with techniques of conjoint marital and family therapy.

Who is James Framo?

100

This term facilitate recognition of and removal from unhealthy triangles.

What is detriangulating?

200

THIS Bowenian concept is defined as the ability to maintain a strong sense of self while balancing emotional reactivity to emotional system inherent within families.

What is differentiation of self?

200

This term describes the reversal of roles between parent and child-child attempts to meet physical and/or emotional needs of parent.

What is parentification?

200

He authored contextual family therapy which explores relational fairness and trustworthiness in family relationships.

Who is Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy?

200

This is used to determine themes and patterns to address in therapy and recognize transgenerational emotional process patterns.

What is a genogram?

300

THIS type of diagram helps provide client insight of possible emotional processes that have operated over generations. 

What is a genogram?

300

This is a balance sheet of obligations and indebtedness; when unbalanced, family
   functioning is negatively affected.

What is a family ledger?

300

He was considered the father of family systems theory.

Who is Murray Bowen?

300

Begins by encouraging family members to tell life story. It includes where family has lived/moved to, history of spouses’ births and sibling positions, and  significant facts about childhood.

What is family history?

400

This term is the attempt to resolve family conflict by cutting selves off from any significant interactions.

What is emotional cutoff?

400

THIS is a transgenerational transmission of injustices and destructive entitlements, where parents with unresolved family of origin issues pursue their entitlement from their children, depriving children of their entitlement.

What is the revolving slate?

400

These two were founding members of the American Family Therapy Association.

Who are Ivan Boszormenyl-Nagy and James Framo?

400

This term encourages family members to visit family of origin with the goal of getting to know them better.

What is going home again?

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