Quiz Ch. 9 Intergenerational and Psychoanalytic Family Therapies

Differentiation is one of the most useful concepts for understanding interpersonal relationships. Which  statement is true?

 

All of these are correct.

Differentiation is measured along a continuum that ranges from 1 to 100, with lower levels of differentiation represented by lower numbers. Bowen believed that the average person or people rarely reached higher than what level on this scale?

70

Which of the following accurately describes a differentiated person?

 

Jaleesha, who is better able to handle the ups and downs of life

A Bowenian therapist asks a client, “How do the struggles you are experiencing with your wife now compare to the struggles your own parents had? Are they similar or different?” The therapist is asking which type of questions?

 

Process questions

Jordin, an intergenerational therapist, is working with a mom and daughter in therapy. The mom feels extremely guilty about her daughter’s lack of social success in college. The mom, therefore, remains very involved and emotionally reactive in her daughter’s life, even though her daughter is living in the dorms in another town. How might Jordin view the mother’s reactivity?

 

As having chronic anxiety

In the Bowenian approach, how does the therapist address the pathologizing interpersonal pattern (PIP) to resolve issues among families?

 

Bowenian therapists would conceptualize not just the PIPs the couple presents as a problem, but also the PIPs in each family of origin.

Liana is a 40-year old client who describes a lot of anxiety from the "chaos" of her father's substance use disorder growing up, so she no longer engages with him to manage anxiety. An intergenerational therapist would describe Liana's behavior as which of the following?

 

Emotional cutoff

When therapists encourage clients to interact with family members while maintaining a clearer boundary between self and others, this is an example of what therapeutic technique?

 

Going home again

Nathan and Alexander, a couple who have been in a relationship for seven years, complain of a lack of communication and a dissatisfying intimate life. Nathan says he wants more emotional and physical intimacy with Alexander, but that Alexander is happy with cuddling on the couch or doing activities such as gardening together. Alexander complains that their closeness is never enough for Nathan and that he often feels pressured to do more to make Nathan happy. David, a Bowenian therapist, might use which type of intervention with this couple to promote Nathan and Alexander differentiating more and taking responsibility for their individual needs.

 

All of these are correct

Which statement is TRUE about the intergenerational therapy goal to decrease emotional reactivity to chronic anxiety in the system?

 

As differentiation increases, anxiety decreases.

The father of a family in therapy complains that his wife is so involved with their children—always running them back and forth to school, sports practices, dance recitals, and attending PTA meetings—that he never sees her. When he does see his wife, they fight. According to a Bowen intergenerational therapist, this might be considered a classic example of:

 

an emotional triangle.

Whether working with an individual, couple, or family, most therapists at some point will be “invited” by clients to triangulate with them against a third party who may or may not be present in the room. To be effective, the therapist must maintain therapeutic neutrality in order to interrupt a client’s attempt to involve the therapist or someone else in a triangle. This ability to be neutral is known as:

differentiation