Human Development In The Life Cycle Flashcards
In Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs the need for love and esteem is referred to as emotional dependency. What are the five stages of emotional dependency?
Safety, esteem, love, belonging, psychological growth.
According to Bowen (Family Systems Theory) the ___________ between self and others determined the level of fusion and differentiation.
Boundary
A theory of human behavior that views the family as an emotional unit and uses systems thinking to describe the complex interactions in the unit. It is the nature of a family that its members are intensely connected emotionally. Often people feel distant or disconnected from their families, but this is more feeling than fact. Family members so profoundly affect each other’s thoughts, feelings, and actions that it often seems as if people are living under the same “emotional skin.” People solicit each other’s attention, approval, and support and react to each other’s needs, expectations, and distress. The connectedness and reactivity make the functioning of family members interdependent. A change in one person’s functioning is predictably followed by reciprocal changes in the functioning of others. Families differ somewhat in the degree of interdependence, but it is always present to some degree.
Bowden Family Systems Theory
When boundaries between self and others are not clearly defined, or set healthy limitation-but instead are blurred resulting in fusion or low differentiation =?
Diffused Boundries
Boundaries blurred-relationship leans heavily on togetherness opposed to individuality-the opposite of differentiation =?
Fusion
Bowen refers to as the “pretend self”: the self molded by beliefs and values of the family system and easily reshaped by positions taken by others =?
Pseudo-self
One reaches a higher level of differentiation and holds firm to own convictions/beliefs-modified only from w/in self . This can endure group thinking and respects the identity of others w/o attempting to change them.
Solid Self
The third person pulled into a dyad conflict in an attempt to stabilize.
Outsider
When one had a dependency on others and an emotional need for connectedness-fusion often occurs
Togetherness
Ability to function independently from others & respects their differences.
Individuality
A theoretical scale from 1-100 to define level of differentiation from fam systems group. The Lowe the # the lower degree of emotional separation and easily reactive to anxiety provoking situation with others.
Scale of Differentiation
Bowen therapy-used to slow an individual’s process and lessen reactivity in order for them to recognize and take responsibility for their own behavioral patterns in interpersonal relationships.
Process question
Who did research and created the theory focused on individuals who were raised in the same sibling position that had similar traits-therefore established relationships w others that replicated the sibling’s dynamics?
Walter Toman
The emotional atmosphere in which a family generates and affects the emotional functioning of each member =?
Emotional Field
The automatic or instinctual response that allows all living things to adapt to the changes in their environment or in Bowen’s view-the fam system =?
Emotional response
Process by which dysfunctional emotional patterns w/in a fam are passed on to each generation
Nuclear family emotional process
The center that connects all family members
Nuclear family
A fam containing members who are functioning at low levels aid differentiation and in turn become fused
Undifferentiated family ego mass
When an organism responds to a threat-real or imagined. Equivalent to increased reactivity w/in a system. Increased amounts of this can result from increased reactivity.
Anxiety
The theory that moods, behaviors, and emotions are effected and shaped by one down perception of the event
Cognitive therapy
Therapy developed by Albert Ellis-Process where one id’s the irrational beliefs, causing negative emotions, and substituting them with positive alternatives therefore altering one’s emotions and moods subsequently allowing them to feel better.
REBT: Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy
