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Bowen (Family Systems): Therapist and Therapeutic Relationship |
Differentiation and the Emotional being of the therapist - this is a technique, clients can only become as differentiated as therapists Nonanxious presence- the more differentiated, the more nonreactive to heavy anxiety and emotion Coach
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Bowen: Case Conceptualization + Assessment |
Theory vs. technique: embodying theory Emotional Systems Chronic Anxiety Multigenerational Transmission Process Multigenerational Patterns Level of Differentiation Emotional Triangles Family Projection Process Emotional Cutoff Sibling Position Societal Regression |
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Bowen: Goals |
1. To increase each person's level of differentiation. 2. To decrease emotional reactivity to chronic anxiety in the system. |
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Bowen: Interventions |
Process Questions Encouraging Differentiation of Self Genograms Detriangulation Relational Experiments "Going home again" "I" Position
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Bowen: Research and Evidence Base |
Not empirically validated - more based on concepts than therapeutic outcome. |
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Bowen: Family |
Normality - Multigenerational network of relationships Anxiety is low, partners are in good emotional contact with own families Symptoms- Caused by emotional fusion and transmission of chronic anxiety |
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Bowen: Concepts |
Differentiation of Self Emotional Triangles Multigenerational emotional processes Sibling position Emotional cutoff societal emotional processes Individuality vs. togetherness |
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Emotional Systems |
• Humans are part of an evolutionary process, families' emotional processes are viewed as an extension of the differentiation process of cells. • family is an emotional system that can become an undifferentiated ego mass - the system transmits anxiety and values from one member to another |
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Differentiation |
Intrapersonal: separate thoughts from feelings in order to respond rather than react Interpersonal: Know where oneself ends and another begins without loss of self
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Genograms |
Family assessment tool that doubles as an intervention: identify patterns that surround the problem, help clients see the patterns more clearly |
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Triangulation |
Emotional triangles form when a dyad draws in a 3rd person due to increased anxiety, using the 3rd person to alleviate tension. This freezes relationships and prevents change - rigid triangles result in symptoms |
