MFT Clinical Chapter 3 Transgenerational
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What is the hallmark of the transgenerational model of family therapy? - ✔✔The powerful
influences that past generations have on the present.
The quality of family of origin interactions are thought to influence: - ✔✔- One's choice of mate
and marital expectations for marriage.
- Each mate interacts according to their internalized unconscious needs, longings and fantasies.
Treatment in transgenerational models require... - ✔✔That family members come to an
understanding of the underlying dynamic issues that affect their relationship (insight). Thus
making the unconscious conscious.
Insights must lead to: - ✔✔New and more productive ways of behaving and interacting
,The transgenerational models take into account... - ✔✔The relationships with prior generations
as a mean to understanding and improving relationships with the nuclear family.
Best way to treat a symptomatic child
(transgenerational model) - ✔✔- Treat the parents.
- Treatment tends to last 2 years (longer than other family therapy models).
Transgenerational vs Psychoanalytic - ✔✔1. Do not subscribe to a linear model of causality
2. Problems are maintained in ongoing patterns through generations.
3. Model views individuals across generations rather than focus on the individual.
Who were the principle practitioners of the transgenerational models of family therapy? - ✔✔-
Murray Bowen and his followers: Philip Guerin, Betty Carter, Norman Paul, and Monica
McGoldrick
- Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy
- James Framo
- Fairbairn, Dicks, and Scharff & Scharff
, Murray Bowen - ✔✔- psychiatrist trained in psychoanalytic theory
- studied relationships between schizophrenic patients and their mothers
- 1950s worked at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- observed patterns of familial closeness and distance that formed his theoretical construct of
differentiation of self
Bowen suggests that it is important for therapists to... - ✔✔- guard against being drawn into the
client family's emotional processes
- differentiate from his/her own family to determine their success in resisting the tendency to
become emotionally reactive with clients.
Differentiation - ✔✔- Created by Bowen
Is a lifelong process of striving to keep one's being in balance through the reciprocal external and
internal processes of self-definition and self-regulation. (ability to differentiate between one's
thoughts and feelings)
What is the cornerstone of the Bowenian model? - ✔✔Differentiation
Models Exam Questions And Answers Latest
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What is the hallmark of the transgenerational model of family therapy? - ✔✔The powerful
influences that past generations have on the present.
The quality of family of origin interactions are thought to influence: - ✔✔- One's choice of mate
and marital expectations for marriage.
- Each mate interacts according to their internalized unconscious needs, longings and fantasies.
Treatment in transgenerational models require... - ✔✔That family members come to an
understanding of the underlying dynamic issues that affect their relationship (insight). Thus
making the unconscious conscious.
Insights must lead to: - ✔✔New and more productive ways of behaving and interacting
,The transgenerational models take into account... - ✔✔The relationships with prior generations
as a mean to understanding and improving relationships with the nuclear family.
Best way to treat a symptomatic child
(transgenerational model) - ✔✔- Treat the parents.
- Treatment tends to last 2 years (longer than other family therapy models).
Transgenerational vs Psychoanalytic - ✔✔1. Do not subscribe to a linear model of causality
2. Problems are maintained in ongoing patterns through generations.
3. Model views individuals across generations rather than focus on the individual.
Who were the principle practitioners of the transgenerational models of family therapy? - ✔✔-
Murray Bowen and his followers: Philip Guerin, Betty Carter, Norman Paul, and Monica
McGoldrick
- Ivan Boszormenyi-Nagy
- James Framo
- Fairbairn, Dicks, and Scharff & Scharff
, Murray Bowen - ✔✔- psychiatrist trained in psychoanalytic theory
- studied relationships between schizophrenic patients and their mothers
- 1950s worked at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
- observed patterns of familial closeness and distance that formed his theoretical construct of
differentiation of self
Bowen suggests that it is important for therapists to... - ✔✔- guard against being drawn into the
client family's emotional processes
- differentiate from his/her own family to determine their success in resisting the tendency to
become emotionally reactive with clients.
Differentiation - ✔✔- Created by Bowen
Is a lifelong process of striving to keep one's being in balance through the reciprocal external and
internal processes of self-definition and self-regulation. (ability to differentiate between one's
thoughts and feelings)
What is the cornerstone of the Bowenian model? - ✔✔Differentiation
