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What are some common Bowenian Techniques?
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- "I" statements
- Genograms - Process Questions - Coaching. |
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Differentiation of Self
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The capacity to think and reflect, to not respond automatically to emotional pressure, internal or external, as well as the ability to be flexible and act wisely even in the face of anxiety. have own set of beliefs
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Why is it important for a Bowenian therapist to avoid triangulation?
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By taking sides with a parent, spouse, or child a therapist inhibits their clients from moving forward and taking more responsibility in the changing process.
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How does a Bowenian therapist facilitate change?
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To foster a change in behavior, the therapist has to create an environment that allows for self-reflection and minimizes anxiety.
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According to Bowen, human relationships are driven by two counterbalancing life forces: _______ and ________.
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Individuality and Togetherness
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What are Bowen's eight interlocking concepts?
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Differentiation of self, triangles, nuclear family emotional process, family projection process, multigenerational transmission process, sibling position, emotional cutoff, and societal emotional process
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Un-differentiated person
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are easily moved to emotionality; their lives are ruled by reactivity to those around them they tend to react impetuously- with submissiveness or defiance toward other people. Difficulty maintaining their own autonomy. difficulty taking stand on own issues.
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The Family Life Cycle
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1) leaving home stage (separating without cutting off)
2) joining of families through marriage stage (new system and old system connections) 3) Families with young children- transitions, childrearing, extended family 4) launching of children and moving on- parents let go and take hold of their own lives, changes in relationships with aging parents. |
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A child develops a _____ to hide undesirable needs or feelings, acting like a "perfect little angel" to gain approval from his/her parents. (Psychoanalytical)
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False Self
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internal objects
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mental images of self and others built up from experience and expectation.
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Psychoanalytic family therapy techniques
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listening
Empathy Analytic Neutrality Interpretations |
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who is best known for his contributions to the development of the psychodynamic approach to family therapy?
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Nathan Ackerman
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What do you call the bridge between psychoanalysis and family therapy?
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Object Relation Theory
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The goal of psychoanalytic family therapy is to free family members from unconscious constraints so that they will be able to interact with one another as healthy individuals… True or False?
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True
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What two forces did Sigmund Freud believe were the very driving forces of his psychoanalysis theory?
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libido and aggression
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Transference
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attributing their qualities of one person to someone else
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projective identification
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person perceives an object as if it contained unwelcome elements of the subject's personality.
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In self psychology, what two things are deemed essential for the development of a secure and cohesive self?
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Mirroring= understanding and acceptance
idealization= base of self-esteem. |
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selfobjects
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objects experienced as part of the self
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Contexual therapy
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emphasizes the ethical dimension of family therapies. ethics fundamental force holding families and communities together…. Boszormenyi-Nagy
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Experiential Family therapy's primary focus is on what tense? (past, present, future)
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Present
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Which two therapies emerged from experiential family therapy?
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internal Family Systems Therapy
Emotionally focused Couples Therapy |
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What is experiential family therapy founded on?
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the premises that the root cause of family problems is emotional suppression
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Who are the two major therapists that developed experiential family therapy?
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Carl Whittaker and vVrginia Satir
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What is the main focus of experiential family therapy?
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liberating family members to be themselves.
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What are Satir's four dishonest ways people communicate?
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blaming, placating, being irrelevant, and being super reasonable.
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family myths
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used to keep peace within the family, a set of beliefs based on a distortion of historical reality and shared by all family members that help shaw the rules governing family functioning.
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Experiential therapist role
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use own personality, be willing to share and risk and increase stress in the family. climate of emotional deadness eliminated. therapy does not require theory.
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7 structured techniques Virginia Satir created to increase family members' awareness
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"i"messages, family sculpture, choreography, humor, touch, props, family reconstruction
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