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When under stress, dyads become unstable and seek the support of a third person. In family therapy, this tendency is called:
 
  a. enmeshment
  b. triangulation
  c. disengagement
  d. emotional fusion

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Joe has unresolved conflicts with his parents. When he turns 18, he immediately moves out of the family's Midwest home and quickly establishes a relationship with a girl on the west coast with whom he shares an apartment.
 
  The process of fleeing from unresolved emotional attachments is referred to by Bowen as:
  a. undifferentiated ego mass
  b. extreme disengagement
  c. emotional cutoff
  d. rigid structural hierarchies



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Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

c





 

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