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| Family therapy is a psychotherapeutic treatment of |
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| the family to bring abou better psychological functioning. |
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| Family systems therapy concentrates on the |
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| interactions of family members and views the the family as a whole unit or system |
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| Four of the many different kinds of family therapy are |
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| intergenerational,structural,strategic and experiential |
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| Bowen's intergenerational approach examines the |
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| impact of the parents' interaction with their family of origin on their interaction with their own children |
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| Minuchin's structural approach is concerned with how family members relate to |
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| each other in therapy and at home |
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| Haley's strategic approach emphasizes the |
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| need to change the symptoms |
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| Th experiential family system therapies emphasize the |
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| unconscious and affective processes of families and therapists in their work. |
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| Freud and other pa's contributed to understanding families |
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| through emphasis on the impact of early child hood events on adulthood |
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| Early research on schizophrenic children as part of family systems` |
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| led to the concepts and ideas that are widely used in current practice of family therapy |
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| General systems theory, coming from outside the social sciences |
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| examines interactions and process of parts of a whole in areas such as engineering and politics |
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Sigmund Freud,Alfred Adler,Anna Freud,Erik Erikson,Donald Winnicott,Harry Stack Sullivan and
Nathan Ackerman |
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| were early psychodynamic therapists who focused (in part) on family therapy |
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| Double bind,Marital schism, Marital skew and Pseudomutuality are concepts |
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| that describe dysfunctional ways of relating within a family |
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| when an individual receives an important message with tow different meanings and is unable to respond to it, the individual is in an impossible situation and when |
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| repeated over time, therapists believe, individuals may show signs of schizophrenia |
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| Marital schism is a situation in which one parent tries to undermine the |
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| worth of another by competing for sympathy or support from the children |
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| Marital skew is a situation in which the psychological disturbance |
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| of one parent dominates the family's interactions |
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| Marital skew sets up an unreal situation so that the family members |
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| can deal with one member's disturbance |
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| Both marital schism and skew place the child in a bind- by |
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| pleasing one parent she risks displeasing the other |
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| Both marital schism and skew place the child in a bind- by |
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| pleasing one parent she risks displeasing the other |
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| Pseudomutuality is presenting an appearance of open relationships in a family so |
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| as to conceal distant or troubled relationships within the family |
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| Members develop roles that they play instead of honesty |
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| relating in pseudomutuality |
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| General systems theory is a basis for understanding of |
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| the communication pattern within the units of a system,both linear and circular |
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| Circular interaction has emphasis |
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| Equifinality is a term that implies that |
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| there are many ways to get to the same destination (change) |
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| Homeostasis is achieved by |
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| feedback from units within the system |
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| In positive feedback, change occurs in the system; in negative feedback, |
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| Bowen emphasized that the family's emotional system may be traced back |
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| through the dynamics of the parents' and even grandparents' families |
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| Bowen was interested in how families projected their own emotionality |
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| onto a particular family member and his reaction |
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| Bowen preferred to work with parents rather than |
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| the individual's ability to differentiate his own intellectual functioning from feelings is |
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| the basis of Bowen's theory |
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| How individual's project their own stresses onto other family members is a concept from |
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| The process of separating ones thinking from ones feeling; the opposite of fusion, is |
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| Differentiation of self (Bowen) |
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| a person who is unable to differentiate his emotions and intellects is unable to |
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| stand up for himself and is dominated by the feelings of others |
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| Poor differentiation may lead to |
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| A process in which two people who are in conflict involve a third person in order to reduce |
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| the tension in their relationship is called triangulation |
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| Nuclear family emotional systems depend on differentiation of members and is unlikely because |
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| we generally select partners with similar levels of differentiation |
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| Family projection process (Bowen) is a means of |
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| projecting or transmitting a parental conflict to one or more children |
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| Fusion, in family systems, is a merging or meshing of |
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| thoughts and feelings in a family member and is the opposite of differentiation (Bowen) |
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| When children receive too much stress because over -inolvement in the family, they may try to separate themselves from the family through |
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| An example of emotional cutoff is a child's emotional |
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| withdrawal and interaction with parents may be brief and superficial |
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| The higher the level of anxiety and emotional dependence, the more likely the children are |
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| to experience an emotional cutoff |
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| Partners with similar differentiation levels seek each other out and |
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| project their stress and lack of differentiation onto their children |
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| The functioning of grandparents, great-grandparents, great-aunts and uncles may play |
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| an important role in the pathology of the family (Bowen) |
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| Multigenerational transmission process includes the past |
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| generations' differentiation onto the children |
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| Bowen believed that birth order impacts the children's functioning and is called |
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| Sibling position is concerned with how one behaved with brothers and sisters has |
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| an impact on how one acts as a parent. |
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| Example of how social stresses can become famine or civil war |
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| is known as societal regression,and is an extension of Bowen's model |
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| Helping families become more differentiated, reduce stress levels and meet their needs as well as those of other family members is |
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| the goal of Bowen's Family Therapy |
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| Techniques of Bowen's Family Therapy are |
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| Evaluation interview, Genograms, Interpretation and Detriangulation |
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| a way that Bowen visually charted the family's relationship system is called a |
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| Bowen interpretation of family dynamics prefers thinking questions instead of feeling questions to avoid |
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| getting drawn into triangles with members |
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| Bowen, who kept an objective attitude to make astute interpretations, had the conversation |
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| directed to him rather than from one famiy member to another |
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| Bowen preferred to work with the healthiest,most differentiated member of the family to separate |
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| To reduce anxiety and resolve symptoms, Bowen worked in |
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| concepts of structural family therapy |
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| are family structure, family subsystems, boundary permeability, alignments and coalitions, |
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| family mappingl accommodating and joining, enactment,intensity, changing boundaries, reframing, |
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| Boundary permeabliity in enmeshed families are |
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| rigid or nonpermeable boundaries are in |
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| boundaries refer to how a family is |
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| organized and follows the rules but do not address how well the family memers work together or not |
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