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1 .       The pioneers of family therapy recognized that people are products of their social context. [Hint]

 
 


2 .       Bowen family systems therapy has a very broad view of human behavior and human problems but his actual unit of treatment was smaller. [Hint]

 
 


3 .       According to Bowen Individuality and differentiation of self are the two counterbalancing life forces. [Hint]

 
 


4 .       Virtually all emotionally significant relationships are shadowed by third parties: relatives, friends, or memories. [Hint]

 
 


5 .       The more undifferentiated people are the more able they are to manage anxiety and stress. [Hint]

 
 


6 .       Firstborns identify less strongly with power and authority than do their siblings. This makes it easier to get along in the powerful adult world as children. [Hint]

 
 


7 .       Bowen saw sibling conflict as just one side of an emotional triangle. [Hint]

 
 


8 .       Parents can transmit their emotional problems to their children. [Hint]

 
 


9 .       A child to whom a mother has an anxious emotional attachment likely will receive most of the family's emotional resources and is more able to differentiate from the family of origin. [Hint]

 
 


10 .       Bowens' theory defocuses on symptoms in favor of systems dynamics. [Hint]

 
 






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