Bowen Therapy Flashcards
Primary Contributors
Bowen
McGoldrick
Guerin
(Kerr, and Carter)
Role of the Therapist in Bowen Therap
- coach
2. neutral
Length of Time
Long-term
not structured
Unit of Treatment
family preferred but indivdual okay (encouraged to see as many FOO as possible)
genogram (assessment and intervention tool)
an assessment tool used to structure the emotional relationships between family members (triangles, boundaries etc)
process questions
used to get individuals to look at what is going on in between
going home task
having them go to their FOO to bring out new insights and reconnecting
Goals of Treatment in Bowen
- Reduce Anxiety,
- Differentiate (ability to separate thoughts from feelings)
- increase insight/awareness
Early Phase of Bowen
- emphasis on taking history to assess for TOGETHERNESS and INDIVIDUALITY,
- Identify FOO, triangles, and various levels of differentiation
Middle Phase of Bowen
- Family will CO-CONSTRUCT a Family Diagram/Genogram
End Phase of Bowen
Reduce anxiety and Increase differentiation in as many family members as possible (informed by the assessment phase completed in prior phase)
Termination in Bowen
Sessions will terminate when individual or family is able to discern between thoughts and feelings
Differentiation of self
emotional cutoff: discontinuing emotional or physical conact to manage unresolved problems and reduce anxiety
family life cycle
common stages families enter into
What are the family life stages
family prjoection process
parents emotions are transferred onto children
Fusion
overconnectedness which results in others not being able to make one’s own decisions
Multigenerational transmission process
the family emotional process projected onto future generations, usually chronic anxiety
Nuclear family emotional process
The basic emotional pattern that influences where probelms develop (marital conflict, dysfuncion in spouse, impairemnt of a child, emotional distance)
sibling position
societal emotional process
societies influence the emotional affect of the family
triangles
a person relationship that is used to diffuse anxiety between 2 people
