Author Question: What did Bowen mean by the term family projection process? a. The family focuses negative energy ... (Read 114 times)

Bernana · **on:** Jul 30, 2018

What did Bowen mean by the term family projection process?

a. The family focuses negative energy on a person or group outside the system.
b. Bowen did not conceptualize this term.
c. The family projection process is one of imagining how the family wants to interact and then trying to actualize that image.
d. One family members symptoms pull the rest of the family together by creating a mutual worry.
e. One family member pulls the family together by cracking jokes or otherwise entertaining them.

Question 2

How do family systems therapists use the term identified patient?

a. This is not a term used by systems therapists.
b. The identified patient is the one with the most severe problem.
c. The family who comes to counseling is often focused on one member's problems, making that member the identified patient.
d. The identified patient is the one that the therapist identifies as the person who has the most power to influence positive change in the family.
e. The identified patient is the family, including only members who come to counseling.