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1 .       The most important unfinished business of our lives is our unresolved emotional reactivity to ____________________. [Hint]



2 .       The capacity for autonomous function in Bowen Family Systems Therapy is called _______________________. [Hint]



3 .       A (n)_______________________ person is able to balance thinking and feeling---capable of strong emotion and spontaneity but also capable of objectivity that comes with the ability to resist the pull of emotional impulses. [Hint]



4 .       Whenever you hear a family story in which one person is victim and the other villain, you're being invited into a(n) _________________________. [Hint]



5 .       Transitional changes in a family from one stage of the family life cycle to the next are called ____________ changes, where the system itself changes. [Hint]



6 .       Emotional cutoff describes the way people manage undifferentiation and the associated anxiety between _____________________. [Hint]



7 .       Therapists must be aware of imposing their own perspectives on __________________ that are accepted in some settings. [Hint]



8 .       Gender and ethnicity inequalities in Bowen's framework were addressed by ________________. [Hint]



9 .       Taking a personal stance by saying what you feel instead of what others are doing is called ___________. [Hint]



10 .       The process of expansion, contraction, and realignment of the family relationship system is called the _____________. [Hint]



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