Transgenerational Models

Question 1

What are the three theories in the Transgenerational Model?

Answer 1

Objective relations theory, Contextual Family Therapy, Bowenian Family Therapy

Question 2

Bowenian Family therapy founder?

Answer 2

Murray Bowen

Question 3

Primary challenges according to Bowen

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achieve and maintain a balance of individuality and togetherness.

Question 4

Individuality and Togetherness

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Objective and non-reactive; Subjective, reactive. There needs to be a balance of this or there is an increase in anxiety.

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Differentiation of Self

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Balance of thinking and feeling. Diff. individuals are less reactive and more objective.

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Triangles

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creates an emotional closeness with one that they are not receiving from another.

Question 7

Nuclear fam. emotional system

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emotional patterns of interaction within a family.

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Family Projection Process

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projecting ones needs onto other family members.

Question 9

Undifferentiated Family Ego Mass

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used to identify an excess of emotional reactivity.

Question 10

Primary goal of Bowen

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Decrease anxiety; increase differentiation

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Who is involved (Bowen)

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ind. fam members, dyad or entire fam.

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Diagnosis (bowen)

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non pathologizing; maintains a systemic focus.

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treatment duration (bowen)

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long term several years

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Assessment (Bowen)

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rich history of generations, look for presence of triangles

Question 15

Genograms

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can be used as an assessment or intervention

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Therapy Structure

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Assessment phase, genogram phase and differentiation phase

Question 17

emotional cutoff

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problematic way of dealing with attachment issues through withdrawal

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sibling position

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birth order and plays a role in how members are chosen for the project projections process.

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societal emotional process

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impact of social influences on family functioning. higher differentiation less vulnerability to destructive societal influences. i.e sexism, discrimination.

Question 20

detriangulate

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families will try to triangulate you, be neutral.

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Nonanxious presence

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usually the therapist, promotes higher rationality through modeling. influence rationality.

Question 22

process questions

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slows down the individual to decrease emotionality and increase rationality to become aware of how stress and anxiety influence behavior.

Question 23

Going Home Again

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repair conflicting relationships outside of session

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Displacement stories

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intervention about creating distance from self and problems and increase rationality by reflecting on another’s conflict as opposed to their own.

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Coaching

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role of the therapist in the process of helping them to differentiate themselves. You as the therapist are responsible for getting them started, the work comes from them.

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I-position

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nonblaming; expression of feelings through ownership

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relationship experiment

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experiment with different ways of responding to one another. helps them to become of aware of how their behaviors impact one another.

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person to person relationship

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telling the other how you are feeling using i-statements without triangulating

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Contextual Family Therapy

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Focuses on concepts of fairness and relational ethics

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Founder of Contextual Family Therapy

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Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy; father was judge hence the piece on justice. Ind. are born into a legacy based upon prior experiences of the parents and siblings

Question 31

Contextual

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consist of social and political context as well all ind. personally affected by the therapeutic interventions.

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Duration of therapy (Contextual)

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Long term process of engaging in insight before working through the source of the issue.

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5 primary dimensions

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Facts, psychology, transactions,relational ethics

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Facts

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stable and physical attributes that ind. are born wit. (gender, ethnicity, disabilities, cognitive functioning. develops externally

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Psychology

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Ind. experience with the world; thoughts, feelings. things that develop internally

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Transactions

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the pattern of organization of interactions within one's family system.

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Relational ethics

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Most significant component of Contextual. responsibilty each person has for the impact of their behaviors on others.

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Loyalty

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an ind. internalized expectations of and obligations to their foo. Has a powerful influence over their functioning.

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Legacy

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certain attributes or qualities that are attributed to an individual as an account of being born to their parents.

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Entitlement

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what individuals are inherently due from others in their family. and what is earned from others based upon behavior towards them.

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Ledger

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the manner in which fam. members keep track of and balance debt and entitlements.

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Merit

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earned when parents are responsible and ethical within the parent-child relationship. only when ethical and fair this rewards them with loyalty.

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Equitable Asymmetry

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Children are entirely dependent on their parents, making them both incredibly vulnerable or entitled based upon the circumstances of their upbringing.

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Filial Loyalty

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this concept suggests that children are inherently loyal to their family of origin

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Split Filial Loyalty

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when a child finds themselves in a space of having to choose loyalty toward one parent at the expense of being loyal to the other.

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Revolving Slate of Injustice

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multigenerational transmission of destructive entitlement where one generation harms the next generation despite the fact of no wrong doing.

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revolving slate of injustice

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Multigenerational transmission of destructive entitlement where one generation harms the next generation without There being any wrongdoing.

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destructive entitlement

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When individuals experience denial of entitlement from FOO and seek what is owed through a different relationship, their family of creation.

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debts or filial responsibility

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An account for the child’s degree of fairness and ethical consideration from their parent towards them, they will be either debts of filial responsibility

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parentification

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An attempt from the child to earn love from their parent by acting as their caretaker. Child takes on role of the parent.

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exoneration

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The process by which an individual restores balance within their ledger.

Question 51

deparentification process

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Two part process (1) Therapist temporarily becomes parentified to relieve the parentified child (2) address the larger spectrum of family dynamics to work towards systemic change.

Question 52

multidirectional partiality

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Similar to neutrality while being responsible to everyone involved