Trans-generational Model-Application to a Hypothetical Case Scenario
Although the hypothetical Jones family of the fictive scenario is specifically seeking help for only one of its troubled members, clearly, because of the large and interconnected nature of all Jones family members, all generations of the family must be assessed and treated as much as they are willing and able, as part of the therapy. Conflicts have been handed down through the multigenerational transmission process of projection and continued, negative patterns of family projection of one generation's needs upon the next generation's faces. Multigenerational transmission thus is the collective, often self-defeating process by which family emotional coping mechanisms are transferred and maintained over three generations through projection. To stop this from occurring, Dr. Murray Bowen introduced eight interlocking concepts to family theory, therapy, and treatment: 1. The need for the differentiation of the individual self from the family. 2. The triangles present within the family dynamic 3. Nuclear family emotional processes. 4. Patterns family projection process 5. The specific pattern of the family's multigenerational transmission process, as well as 6.sibling positioning, 7.emotional cutoffs within the family and finally
Bowenian treatment entails 1.Placing the presenting the family's problems in a multigenerational framework that means involving all members of the Jones family, not just Cindy. 2. Lowering the general family level of anxiety about the problem, i.e. demonstrating that Cindy does not 'have' to be a delinquent for the rest of her life 3.Increasing differentiation between the different generations. 4.Forming relationships with the dysfunctional members of the Jones family, in this case, Cindy and both sets of grandparents as well as her parents. 5.Opening closed ties and de-triangulation of members, such as the polarization of Cindy versus her siblings and grandmother Julie. 6.Symptoms focus or blame is to be avoided while 7.Evaluating progress is a mandatory part of continuing therapy. Daughters: Cindy (age 16) and Gail (age 6). Also, to refer to the individual whose situation caused the family to seek counseling in the first place, Cindy Jones, Cindy has the same name of her paternal grandmother Julie Jones's enemy in high school. The first Cindy got better grades than Julie and married a famous athlete. The paternal grandparents Charles, age 65 and Julie age 60, live close by in the city, and thus affect Cindy's self-perception. Although Cindy is very bright her parents John and Mary are concerned she is failing in school and socializes with peers who are known to be deviant. Cindy is beginning to stay out late at night, experimenting with alcohol and marijuana, stealing money from home, and is sexually active. The grandmother Julie says she is certain that Cindy is a delinquent and will always be a delinquent, thus perpetuating the self-defeating association of Cindy but also the family pattern of male emotional withdrawal and female over-involvement in parenting and children's definitions of themselves. Bowen was one of the first family therapists to realize how individuals, such
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