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* Views the family as an Optimal developed is thought to take place when family members
emotional unit and uses are differentiated, have low anxiety, and are in good emotional
systems thinking to contact with their own family.
describe the complex
interactions within the Bowen believed that differentiation of autonomous personalities,
family. typically accomplished in the family of origin, are the description
* Within every family of normal development and prescription for therapeutic progress.
system there are various
processes that either tie
families together or
separate them.
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Role of Model of Emotional
Counselor Disturbance:
Families exist as unique, collective, emotion systems that often pass
• Guide
problems down through generations.
References:
Counseling Process:
Corey, G. (2013). Theory and
practice of counseling and Time Focus: Focused on the present and how the past has resurfaced,
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family of origin, three generations.
Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Therapy Goals: Change the individual within the context of the
Halbur, D.A. & Halbur, K.V. system, help individual family members increase their levels of
(2011) Understanding your differentiate to allow them to mature emotionally and to be more
theoretical orientation in autonomous, help manage emotions within the family helping members
counseling and be able to reduce symptoms and current emotional turmoil and to
psychotherapy.Upper Saddle provide boundary clarification between members of the family and to
River, NJ: Pearson Education, Inc. identify “triangles”
Kerr, Michael E. “One Family’s Process of change: Questions and cognitive processes lead to
Story: A Primer on Bowen differentiation and understanding of family of origin. Increase the
Theory.” The Bowen Center for
the Study of the Family. 2000. ability to distinguish between feeling and thinking and using this to
http://www.thebowencenter.org. solve problems within the family.
Nichols, M/P. (10th edition). Techniques: Family assessment, genograms, processing questions,
Family Therapy: Concepts and relationship experiments, detriangulating relationships. coaching, taking
Methods. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.
“I-positions”, displacement stories and sharing hypotheses. *Bowen did
not identify many techniques, as he believed that questioning the family
about their history was important and that by providing hypotheses, the
family would gain a greater knowledge of their emotional system and
family patterns.