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| Intergenerational/Bowen- Theory of Disfunction |
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| Undifferentiation results in Marital conflict, dysfunction in a spouse, or symptoms of dysfunction in one or more children |
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| Intergenerational/Bowen Theorist |
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| Intergenerational/Bowen- Theory of Change |
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| To find an intellectual/emotional balance by increasing the ability to distinguish between thinking and feeling within the self and others; learning to use that ability to direct one's life and solve problems |
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| Intergenerational/Bowen-Stages of Therapy |
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- Emphasis on the extended family, presence of entire family not required
- Creation of a genogram through questioning designed to tease out patterns of relationships
- Reduce anxiety levels and increase differentiation
- Open currently closed communication and resolve triangles in extended family |
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| Intergenerational/Bowen- Stance of Therapist |
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Neutral and objective
coach |
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| Intergenerational/Bowen- Methods/Techniques |
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- Focus on process not content
- genogram, extensive history taking
- "I" position
- Detriangulate
- Create therapy triangle
- Therapy is often long-term |
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| Intergenerational/Bowen- Diagnosis/Assessment |
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- Extensive sef-report data on family history
- level of differentiation of family members
- degree of cut-off
- level of family anseity and emotional reactivity
- triangles
- differentiation scale |
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transgenerational models
- emotional and/or physical distancing from family relationship or denail of thier importance in orther to avoid the pain of unresolved emotional conflicts, anxiety and lack of differentiation |
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| Family Projection Process |
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| In bowenian family therapy, the lack of differentiation in parents often results in one of the parents becoming dysfunctional, immature and fused with one of the children. |
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| From Bowen, fusion refers to the to the blurring of intellectual and emotional features or boundaries between family members. The opposite of differentiation, it results in a lack of separate self and high levels of reactivity among family members |
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| Multigenerational Transmission Process |
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| In Bowenian family therapy, the process by which roles, patterns, emotion reactivity, and family structure are passed from one generation to another. Poorly differentiated individuals tend to marry one another and over several generations produce offspring who are increasingly less differentiated and as a result suffer from severe mental disorders including schizophrenia |
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| Nuclear Family Emotional System |
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| From Bowen, a fused family that is unstable and unable to cope with stress. Characterized by conflict and dysfunction which are transmitted across generations |
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| From Bowenian family therapy, a dysfunctional process in which an unresolved conflict between two people (often parents) is extended to include a third person (often their child), whose loyalty is fought over |
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| Contextual- Theory of Dysfunction |
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| The trust worthiness of relationships breaks down because fairness, caring and accountability are absent |
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| Contextual- Theory of Change |
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- a prevenatative plan for current and future generations
- to restore people's capacity to give through fair relating and trust |
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| Contextual- Stages of Therapy |
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- Unit of treatment is decided by the therapist
- Engagement
- Focus on cognitive exploration of historic factors that are having an impact on current relationships
- Alter perceptions of family adn indivuduals
- Facilitate problem solving
- Encourage family members to increase their options by expanding the trust-Basis of their own relationships
- Therapy is often long- Term |
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| Contextual- Stance of Therapist |
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- Active, personal engagement
- Co-therapy is encouraged
- Raise issues of relational balances
- A catalyst of resources
- Advocate for all within the basic relational context, that is, the multigenerational extended family, including deceased family members |
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| Contextual- Methods/Techniques |
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- Multidirectional partiality
- Listening
_ Ovserving
- Responding to unconscious material
- The decision of whom to see belongs to the therapist and is based on information shared by the family
- Couple treatment is not considered a separate modality |
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| Contextual-Diagnosis/ Assessment |
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- Family resources are the main focus of assessment, they are seen as potentially self-validating
- Observations of family relationship includes all four dimentions
Assessment is an on-going process
- The therapist understands the convictions of people as deriving from both the stage of development and the effect of family and other group loyalties
- Triangles are assessed |
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