PPSY 571 Family Therapy Exam 2 Prep Quiz: Bowen and Psychoanalytic Family Therapy

__________ is a process in which a dyad draws in a third person to stabilize it.

One's level of differentiation is fixed and does not change.

___________ is a person's ability to separate intrapersonal and interpersonal distress.

_________ is when a client projects onto therapist attributes stemming from unresolved issues with primary caregivers.

Families are systems of interconnected and interdependent individuals and not understood in isolation from the system.

The family projection process leads to increased differentiation in subsequent generations.

Intergenerational therapy involves increasing clients’ awareness of how behavior is connected to multigenerationally.

Which is NOT one of Bowen's Eight Interlocking Concepts?

Check all who are associated with The Women's Project.

__________ is the emotional system governing progressive and regressive behaviors on a societal level.

Bowen believe the primary tool for client change is therapist’s personal level of differentiation.

Families exhibit _________ in response to crises, loss, conflict, and other difficulties.

__________ is when clients defend against anxiety by projecting unwanted parts of themselves onto their partner.

________ is when one separates good from bad objects by repressing the rejecting/exciting objects.

Going home again is a Bowenian intervention that involves ___________.

One of the best ways to see the multigenerational patterns in a family is through the use of ____________.

Creating a holding environment is especially important to ______ theory.

As anxiety decreases, differentiation increases.

Being “partial” with all members of the family is known in Psychoanalyic theory as _____________

Intergenerational family therapy shares common roots with which two theories? (pick 2)

Bowen did not feel that sibling position was important in the nuclear family.

Parental interjects are internalized negative parental attributes unconsciously projected onto future relationships.

Detriangulation is used when parents triangulate a child into their relationship to deflect from their couple distress.

___________ is the transmission of emotional problems from a parent to a child.

Emotional cut-offs are a way an individual family member might manage chronic anxiety.

Bowen asserted the emotional processes from prior generations are not present in the current family emotional system.

Examples of triangulation include (check all that apply):

Parents will always have higher levels of differentiation than their children.