strategies for managing the emotional climate of the family - correct answer ✔✔- nurture and support
family members (ex: when parents leave a note in kid's lunch)
- build family cohesion, "us against the world" (family rituals, eating together every night)
- manage conflict and tension
contained conflict - correct answer ✔✔stays between the people that are directly involved in the conflict
uncontained conflict - correct answer ✔✔other people who are not directly involved in conflict become
involved
- caused by cross generational coalitions, triangulation, family projection process
fusion.. - correct answer ✔✔tendency to submerge ones sense of self in relationship with others,
thereby losing the distinctions among emotional and intellectual functioning, self and others
- when family members are so connects to the family's emotional system that it interferes with ability to
manage aspects of lives
differentiation - correct answer ✔✔- ability to free self from responding to emotional field in family
system
- applied to INDIVIDUAL: refers to ability of family members express their own individuality and act
independently while remaining emotionally connected to others
- applied to FAMILY: refers to the degree to which difference is tolerated within the family system
well differentiated.. - correct answer ✔✔tolerance for individuality, but still connected and have good
relationships
- your needs and wants are taken into consideration
, poorly differentiated... - correct answer ✔✔overly connected, no tolerance for individuality, OR too
much tolerance for difference that no one is connected at all
differentiation of self - correct answer ✔✔extent to which one has successfully resolved emotional
attachments to ones' family of origin, reflected in the individual's level of psychological maturity
- don't hesitate to bring up issues because you can handle it
- poorly differentiated couples have been unhappy with what's going on but they don't say anything
cause they don't want conflict
- frees you in ability to be connected to other people
basic fusion/ differentiation - correct answer ✔✔every day interactions
- ex: say something in a fight that you later regret
coping with fusion - correct answer ✔✔- genogram
- family ledger
- invisible loyalties
- triangulation
- family projection process
- emotional cutoff
genogram - correct answer ✔✔dimensional map of family relationships, understand how you fit into a
larger family system , shows patterns that you may not see otherwise
family ledger - correct answer ✔✔book where you wrote income and expenses, "I've done this for you
and you've done this for me"
- obligation/debts/credits
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