Family & MD Life Cycle: Family Structure Flashcards
Stages of the Family Life Cycle: second stage
The new couple (joining families through marriage)
Stages of the Family Life Cycle: first stage
Single young adulthood (leaving home)
Stages of the Family Life Cycle: third stage
Families with young children
Stages of the Family Life Cycle: fourth stage
Families with adolescents
Stages of the Family Life Cycle: fifth stage
Launching children & moving on
Stages of the Family Life Cycle: sixth stage
Families in later life
Composed of differentiation of self, emotional triangles, family projection process, multigenerational process and emotional cut-offs.
Bowen Family System Theory
Autonomous with ego strength & capacity to think and reflect
Differentiation of self
Easily moved to emotionality, react w/ submissiveness or defiance ang agree w/ everything you say or argue w/ everything
Undifferentiated people
The way people manage undifferentiation. The greater the emotional fusion between parents and children, the greater likelihood of this.
Emotional Cut-off
When two people have problems they are unable to workout. Will turn to someone else for sympathy or will draw in a 3rd person who will try to fix it. Lets off steam but freezes the conflict in place.
Triangulation
Process by which parents transmit their lack of differentiation to their children.
Family projection process
Husband who is _________ from his parents and siblings relates in a very ______ relationship to his wife. This predisposes her to ______ on her kids.
Cut-off. Distant. Focus.
Less differentiated people marry and select a mate about the same level of differentiation with theirs. The level of anxiety in new family will be _______.
Multigenerational Transmission Process. Higher.
Formulated the Bowen Family System Theory
Murray Bowen
Formulated Structural Family Therapy. When he speaks families listen. Included are boundaries. He’s from Argentina.
Salvador Minuchin
Type of Boundary: indecisiveness, interrupting others & speaking for other family members.
Enmeshment
Type of Boundary: reactive and surprising ignorance of important information.
Disengagement
Type of Boundary: total absence of conflict and lack of concern for each other’s interest.
Diengagement
Type of Boundary: doing things for children they can do for the selves and constantly arguing.
Enmeshment
