Using the Lens of Bowen Family Systems Theory
WorkshopSpring 2022|#4654
May 6, 2022
18 yrs +, Mixed
General Social Work
Activity locationOnline via Zoom
Description
Using the Lens of Bowen Family Systems Theory
Course Description:
This presentation will describe how families tend to organize themselves to balance its togetherness of itself as an organic unit with that of the autonomy of its members (“self”). How a family balances these instincts will tend to support or compromise the capacity of its members to function independently. This presentation will elaborate on this theme, and will address variations of this balancing across families, and will show how this variation implicates:
- symptom development
- areas of involvement outside the family (e.g., work, church, etc) tend to be emotional extensions of adult relationships, which in turn tend to be emotional extensions of the family of origin of both partners in the relationship
Course Objectives:
- Participants will be able to conceptualize “family” as a primary organic unit, including the concept of anxiety, and understand how family emotional process arises from that.
- Participants will be able fo further that understanding to see how family emotional process impacts symptom development and recovery
- Participants will be able to organize thinking around that process, and how that impacts the functioning of its members
- Implications of this way of thinking for case conceptualization, as well as thinking about one’s own families.
Activity meeting dates
May 6, 2022
Fri9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Instructor
Arthur Zipris
More Information
SupervisorMolly Allwein
Number of sessions1
DepartmentSocial Work - Continuing Education
Education Unit4
$85.00
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