Bowen

Question 0

Feeling system

Answer 0

Link between emotional and intellectual systems through which certain emotional states are represented in conscious awareness

Question 1

Responsible “I”

Answer 1

When one assumes responsibility for their own happiness; avoids thinking that blames others

Question 2

Family emotional system

Answer 2

Triangular emotional patterns that operate in all close relationships

Question 3

Governed by the same laws that govern all living things

Answer 3

System thinking

Question 4

Fusions

Answer 4

Overlap between emotional and intellectual self

Question 5

Solid self

Answer 5

Clearly defined beliefs; process of intellectual reasoning where beliefs and principles are consistent; stable

Question 6

Immature separation of people from one another

Answer 6

Cut off

Question 7

Intellectual system

Answer 7

ability to think, reason, and reflect and enables a man to govern his life; intellect and reason

Question 8

Basic self

Answer 8

Not changed by coercion or pressure, or to gain approval

Question 9

Anxiety

Answer 9

Organism’s response to threat, real or imagined

Question 10

Individuality

Answer 10

Built in life growth force toward a separate self

Question 11

Emotional reactivity

Answer 11

Emotional reflex that occurs automatically without awareness; observable in moderate levels of tension

Question 12

Differentiation is the process of managing…

Answer 12

…individuality and togetherness within a relationship system, ability to distinguish between feeling and intellectual states.

Question 13

In nuclear families, Bowen says these four symptomatic patterns occur from their lack of differentiation

Answer 13

Emotional distance, marital conflict, symptoms in one spouse,emotional impairment in a child

Question 14

Lower differentiated people are r—– and higher differentiated people are r—-

Answer 14

Responsive, reactive

Question 15

The root cause of family dysfunction according to Bowen is,

Answer 15

Emotional distress as a part of natural processes

Question 16

According to Bowen theory, An individual develops symptoms when life events

Answer 16

Threatens his emotional connection with others, increases the anxious focus of others on himself, increases his dependence on others

Question 17

The emotional system incorporates

Answer 17

Only instinct and reproduction

Question 18

The role of a bowenian therapist is

Answer 18

Coach

Question 19

Pseudo self

Answer 19

Beliefs created by emotional pressure, random and inconsistent not in the individuals awareness, unstable; the way people lend or borrow self to another.

Question 20

Goals of bowenian therapy

Answer 20

Decreasing anxiety, developing factual more objective perspective, increase differentiation

Question 21

Bowenian therapy ends when

Answer 21

Client decides when they are good to work on differentiation on their own and may have check in visits