HDFS 2300: Exam 2 with verified
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What is the Task of Managing the Emotional Climate? - correct answer ✔✔provide for emotional and
psychological wellbeing of members
Closeness, involvement, acceptance, and nurturance needs
What are 3 General Strategies to Manage Emotional Climate? - correct answer ✔✔1. Nurture and
support individual members
2. Build family cohesion
3. Manage conflict and tension
Fusion - correct answer ✔✔Tendency to submerge one's sense of self in relationships with others
thereby losing the distinctions among emotional and intellectual functioning self and other
When family members are so connected to the family's emotional system that it interferes with ability to
manage aspects of lives
When fusions exist in families, emotions rule
Can create illusions that family members are extension of one self
Limitations to Fusion - correct answer ✔✔doesn't allow you to differentiate/develop a sense of self thus
increasing anxiety and coalitions and decreasing intimacy within a family.
Differentiation - correct answer ✔✔• Ability to free self from responding to the emotional field in family
system
• Not saying they are robots (emotionless), the thing is they are choosing how they are going to react
• Emotionally proactive- take responsibility for emotions, understand how behavior is effected
,• When applied to individual refers to the ability of family members to express their own individuality
and act autonomously while remaining emotionally connected to others
• At family level refers to the degree to which difference is tolerated within the family system
Triangulation/Emotional Triangles - correct answer ✔✔• Emotional triangles occur when two parts of a
family system have an ongoing conflict and they focus on something or someone else as a way of gaining
control over the situation or stabilizing their problem
• Result of chronic family anxiety
• Trying to relieve pressure between 2 people
• Problem is that you are never dealing directly with anxiety of emotional turmoil
What are the Two Levels of Fusion/Differentiation? - correct answer ✔✔Basic fusion/differentiation
- Barone family: poorly differentiated, fused
o Describes to typical/everyday emotional climate of family
Functional fusion/differentiation
o When you say something horrible in an argument and regret it later
o People say and do things that they regret later
situational
How do Families Cope with Fusion? - correct answer ✔✔Genogram
Family ledger
Invisible loyalties
Triangulation
Family projection process
Emotional cut off
Genogram - correct answer ✔✔Family map
Draw where family people are and draw out boundaries
Visual representation of patterns in family
, Family Ledger - correct answer ✔✔I did this for you
Balance would be too high if you did this with certain people (kids)
Can't balance ledger ever
Invisible Loyalties - correct answer ✔✔Want to resolve these
Deep emotional ties you have to other family members
Emotional Cutoff - correct answer ✔✔Emotionally psychologically or physically detach themselves from
ones family of origin in an effort to avoid fusion and maintain control over ones sense of self
Chronic Family Anxiety - correct answer ✔✔- Occurs when uneasiness distress or apprehension endures
for long periods of time
- Can lead to destructive emotional climates such as general feelings of animosity
Important one for families: Long term tension or resentment
o Occurs when family members feel others in their family have been unjust to them in important ways
- Higher the level of chronic anxiety in a family (or other relationship) the less likely the will be able to
attain their goals or be adaptive
Contained vs. Unconfined Conflict - correct answer ✔✔Contained: stays within the people having
conflict
Uncontained: spreads to people who were not involved in the original conflict
Manifests in 3 ways:
- coalition
-triangulation
- family projection process
Individuation - correct answer ✔✔A developmental process through which one comes to see oneself as
separate and distinct from others within ones relational (familial, social, cultural) context. The degree to
which individuation has occurred is the degree to which the person no longer experiences himself as
fusing with others in personal relationships
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What is the Task of Managing the Emotional Climate? - correct answer ✔✔provide for emotional and
psychological wellbeing of members
Closeness, involvement, acceptance, and nurturance needs
What are 3 General Strategies to Manage Emotional Climate? - correct answer ✔✔1. Nurture and
support individual members
2. Build family cohesion
3. Manage conflict and tension
Fusion - correct answer ✔✔Tendency to submerge one's sense of self in relationships with others
thereby losing the distinctions among emotional and intellectual functioning self and other
When family members are so connected to the family's emotional system that it interferes with ability to
manage aspects of lives
When fusions exist in families, emotions rule
Can create illusions that family members are extension of one self
Limitations to Fusion - correct answer ✔✔doesn't allow you to differentiate/develop a sense of self thus
increasing anxiety and coalitions and decreasing intimacy within a family.
Differentiation - correct answer ✔✔• Ability to free self from responding to the emotional field in family
system
• Not saying they are robots (emotionless), the thing is they are choosing how they are going to react
• Emotionally proactive- take responsibility for emotions, understand how behavior is effected
,• When applied to individual refers to the ability of family members to express their own individuality
and act autonomously while remaining emotionally connected to others
• At family level refers to the degree to which difference is tolerated within the family system
Triangulation/Emotional Triangles - correct answer ✔✔• Emotional triangles occur when two parts of a
family system have an ongoing conflict and they focus on something or someone else as a way of gaining
control over the situation or stabilizing their problem
• Result of chronic family anxiety
• Trying to relieve pressure between 2 people
• Problem is that you are never dealing directly with anxiety of emotional turmoil
What are the Two Levels of Fusion/Differentiation? - correct answer ✔✔Basic fusion/differentiation
- Barone family: poorly differentiated, fused
o Describes to typical/everyday emotional climate of family
Functional fusion/differentiation
o When you say something horrible in an argument and regret it later
o People say and do things that they regret later
situational
How do Families Cope with Fusion? - correct answer ✔✔Genogram
Family ledger
Invisible loyalties
Triangulation
Family projection process
Emotional cut off
Genogram - correct answer ✔✔Family map
Draw where family people are and draw out boundaries
Visual representation of patterns in family
, Family Ledger - correct answer ✔✔I did this for you
Balance would be too high if you did this with certain people (kids)
Can't balance ledger ever
Invisible Loyalties - correct answer ✔✔Want to resolve these
Deep emotional ties you have to other family members
Emotional Cutoff - correct answer ✔✔Emotionally psychologically or physically detach themselves from
ones family of origin in an effort to avoid fusion and maintain control over ones sense of self
Chronic Family Anxiety - correct answer ✔✔- Occurs when uneasiness distress or apprehension endures
for long periods of time
- Can lead to destructive emotional climates such as general feelings of animosity
Important one for families: Long term tension or resentment
o Occurs when family members feel others in their family have been unjust to them in important ways
- Higher the level of chronic anxiety in a family (or other relationship) the less likely the will be able to
attain their goals or be adaptive
Contained vs. Unconfined Conflict - correct answer ✔✔Contained: stays within the people having
conflict
Uncontained: spreads to people who were not involved in the original conflict
Manifests in 3 ways:
- coalition
-triangulation
- family projection process
Individuation - correct answer ✔✔A developmental process through which one comes to see oneself as
separate and distinct from others within ones relational (familial, social, cultural) context. The degree to
which individuation has occurred is the degree to which the person no longer experiences himself as
fusing with others in personal relationships
