Bowen Therapy

Question 1

Primary Contributors

Answer 1

Bowen
McGoldrick
Guerin
(Kerr, and Carter)

Question 2

Role of the Therapist in Bowen Therap

Answer 2

1. coach

2. neutral

Question 3

Length of Time

Answer 3

Long-term

not structured

Question 4

Unit of Treatment

Answer 4

family preferred but indivdual okay (encouraged to see as many FOO as possible)

Question 5

genogram (assessment and intervention tool)

Answer 5

an assessment tool used to structure the emotional relationships between family members (triangles, boundaries etc)

Question 6

process questions

Answer 6

used to get individuals to look at what is going on in between

Question 7

going home task

Answer 7

having them go to their FOO to bring out new insights and reconnecting

Question 8

Goals of Treatment in Bowen

Answer 8

1. Reduce Anxiety,
2. Differentiate (ability to separate thoughts from feelings)
3. increase insight/awareness

Question 9

Early Phase of Bowen

Answer 9

1. emphasis on taking history to assess for TOGETHERNESS and INDIVIDUALITY,
2. Identify FOO, triangles, and various levels of differentiation

Question 10

Middle Phase of Bowen

Answer 10

1. Family will CO-CONSTRUCT a Family Diagram/Genogram

Question 11

End Phase of Bowen

Answer 11

Reduce anxiety and Increase differentiation in as many family members as possible (informed by the assessment phase completed in prior phase)

Question 12

Termination in Bowen

Answer 12

Sessions will terminate when individual or family is able to discern between thoughts and feelings

Question 13

Differentiation of self

Answer 13

emotional cutoff: discontinuing emotional or physical conact to manage unresolved problems and reduce anxiety

Question 14

family life cycle

Answer 14

common stages families enter into

Question 15

What are the family life stages

Question 16

family prjoection process

Answer 16

parents emotions are transferred onto children

Question 17

Fusion

Answer 17

overconnectedness which results in others not being able to make one’s own decisions

Question 18

Multigenerational transmission process

Answer 18

the family emotional process projected onto future generations, usually chronic anxiety

Question 19

Nuclear family emotional process

Answer 19

The basic emotional pattern that influences where probelms develop (marital conflict, dysfuncion in spouse, impairemnt of a child, emotional distance)

Question 20

sibling position

Question 21

societal emotional process

Answer 21

societies influence the emotional affect of the family

Question 22

triangles

Answer 22

a person relationship that is used to diffuse anxiety between 2 people