Bowen

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Transgenerational model started by working with schizophrenia

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Bowen

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Bowen normal development

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“Highly differentiated individuals

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What are Highly differentiated individuals/solid self

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able to react to the world rationally and enter into relationships while balancing competing needs for belonging and individuality

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Differentiated system level of anxiety

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low

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Dysfunction in Bowen

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Poorly differentiated individuals” ruled by emotions; lives center around acceptance and being loved
“Pseudo-self” (fusion)

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emotional fusion cause

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Stems from poor differentiation

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Triangle

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Smallest stable unit of family when a 2-person system adds another person or thing to shift tension and stabilize relationship
More than 3 people = interconnecting triangles

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What is nuclear family emotional process [undifferentiated ego mass]

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Family systems develop rules and patterns that are stable over time -. Most often people partner with similarly differentiated people

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Family projection process:

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Differentiation levels are transmitted across generations
Within nuclear family

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Multigenerational transmission process:

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Emotional responses are passed down generation to generation- move towards lower level of differentiation in subsequent generations

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sibling position in Bowen

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helps therapist predict certain roles that child may play in emotional process in family and what might be transmitted

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Goals of treatment in Bowen

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Decrease anxiety by increasing differentiation
Increasing the ability to distinguish between thinking and feeling and learning to use that ability to resolve relationship problems
Change proceeds from the individual and moves to his/her other relationships

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Why should the therapist manage their FOO in Bowen

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Therapist can only help if they are differentiated themselves

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Stance of therapist Bowen

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calm,cerebral, minimize emotional reactivity focus on individual role in problems.

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Differentiation scale

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Bowen intervention 0-100

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genogram

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family diagram to collect and organize information about the family. Used in transgenerational models.

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Neutralizing triangle

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Bowen intervention to decrease triangulation

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What are Relationship Experiments(Bowen):

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ask clients to try new behaviors and pay attention to the processes

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displacement stories (bowen)

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tell stories (or recommend movies) that minimize defensiveness

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Other later theorists who are Bowenian

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Philip Guerin/Monica McGoldrick/betty Carter

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A process by which roles, patterns, emotional reactivity, and family structure are passed from one generation to another is:

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Multigenerational transmission process

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What is emotional cut off

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In Bowenian therapy when a family member no longer emotionally engages with another in order to manage anxiety this is called:

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How do you increase differentiation

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.Work on relationships with family of origin

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Anxiety in bowen

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A family makes choices to decrease andiety.Bowen suggests that managing anxiety is crucial for maintaining healthy emotional boundaries and promoting differentiation. By examining and understanding the underlying anxieties within family systems, individuals can minimize emotional reactivity and respond more effectively to relationship

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What is Bowen’s theory of dysfunction

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Undifferentiation causes dysfunction in family or symptoms in one or more children

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Bowen’s theory of change

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Bowen’s theory of change

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To find a balance by increasing the ability to separate thinking and feeling within the self and others

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Bowen therapy stages

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1. Emphasis on extended family. Does not require whole family to be there
   2.genogram
2. Reduce anxiety and increase differentiation
3. Open communication and resolve triangles

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Bowen length of therapy

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Long term

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What do bowenian therapists assess

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Self reports, differentiation, cutoff,anxiety and reactivity, triangles, individual differentiation scale