Bowenian Assessment and Treatment

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Transgenerational Mind Map on Bowenian Assessment and Treatment, created by ckusachi on 28/07/2013.
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Bowenian Assessment and Treatment
  1. Bowen found when individuals were helped to differentiate, all types of relationships improved
    1. Primary goal of treatment: Differentiation of self for individual family members
    2. treatment model reflects psychoanalytic roots
      1. focused on individual
        1. considers family of origin
          1. area concern is the family unit
            1. this model does not require all members of the family to be present
              1. But it does require family members gain an understanding of how entire system operates across multiple generations
              2. Bowen taught clients about the functions of triangles, and he coached them to be able to extricate themselves from existing triangles and avoid being pulled into new ones
                1. making one change in one part of the triangulated relationship created reactions in other parts of the triangle
                2. Differentiation of Self Scale
                  1. scale from 0, or no self, to 100 (highest level)
                  2. Genogram (Family Diagram)
                    1. organizes information; indicate conflict and emotional issues
                      1. elucidate multigenerational family processes and track changes in triangles over course of treatment
                        1. Watchel (1982) highlights uses
                          1. Assumed that what people reveal varies depending on circumstance
                            1. Projective Hypothesis
                            2. can also focus the family on the total picture
                          2. Emotional Cut-Off
                            1. includes geographical move, results in minimizing contact among family members
                              1. More likely to be replicated in nuclear family
                                1. Role of therapist important
                                  1. Must be sufficiently differentiated from his/her own family so reactivity minimized
                                    1. Triangulates him/herself between a dyad
                                      1. decrease level of emotional reactivity
                                        1. asks process questions
                                        2. Family members sent back home to gather additional information about family history
                                          1. then establish person to person relationships with each member
                                      2. Person to Person Relationships
                                        1. characterize differentiated relationships
                                        2. Coaching
                                          1. teaches clients about family process and coaches them in their efforts to change
                                          2. I Position
                                            1. coaching family members to make statements that reflect their own thoughts and feelings, instead of blaming others
                                            2. Therapist's stance and tasks
                                              1. 1. Controls the emotional tone in session
                                                1. 2. Maintains a de-triangled stance with the couple
                                                  1. 3. Estabilishes a differentiated I position with them, opening the way for them to take I positions with each other
                                                    1. 4. Teaches them how emotional systems operate and initiates the work of differentiation from their respective families of origin
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