Marriage and Family Therapy
1. Bowen Developer of Family Systems Theory.
2. Psychodymani Bowen's family theory is the bridge between and
c and
Systems
Approach
3. Emotional Cutoff Flight from Unresolved emotional ties to ones family
4. Nuclear Bowen contends that people choose mates with level of or about the
family same level ditterentiation equivalent to their own
emotional
sys- tem
5. Sibling position Research on the relationship between birth order and personality with
clarifying his own thinking regarding the influence
6. Differentiation demonstrated by the degree to which a person can think, plan, and
of self
follow his or her own values or convictions, particulary around anxiety-
provoking issues, without having his or her behavior automatically driven
7. Triangulate by the emotional cues from others
(Tri- angle)
Draw in a signficant family member to form a three-person interaction
8. Family
projection
process When a child receives the parents' own low levels of ditterentiation and
becomes that way him, or herself.
9. Multigener
a- tional Severe dysfunction is conceptualized as the result of chronic anxiety
Transmissio transmitted over several generations.
n Process
10. Societal
regres- sion Society, like the family, contains within it opposing forces toward
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unditterentiation and toward individuation
11. Genograms Helps to shed light on a family's multigenerational relationship pattern
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1. Bowen Developer of Family Systems Theory.
2. Psychodymani Bowen's family theory is the bridge between and
c and
Systems
Approach
3. Emotional Cutoff Flight from Unresolved emotional ties to ones family
4. Nuclear Bowen contends that people choose mates with level of or about the
family same level ditterentiation equivalent to their own
emotional
sys- tem
5. Sibling position Research on the relationship between birth order and personality with
clarifying his own thinking regarding the influence
6. Differentiation demonstrated by the degree to which a person can think, plan, and
of self
follow his or her own values or convictions, particulary around anxiety-
provoking issues, without having his or her behavior automatically driven
7. Triangulate by the emotional cues from others
(Tri- angle)
Draw in a signficant family member to form a three-person interaction
8. Family
projection
process When a child receives the parents' own low levels of ditterentiation and
becomes that way him, or herself.
9. Multigener
a- tional Severe dysfunction is conceptualized as the result of chronic anxiety
Transmissio transmitted over several generations.
n Process
10. Societal
regres- sion Society, like the family, contains within it opposing forces toward
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13
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unditterentiation and toward individuation
11. Genograms Helps to shed light on a family's multigenerational relationship pattern
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