57th Symposium on Family Theory and Family Psychotherapy - Friday Morning

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Includes the following presentations:

Introduction – Anne S. McKnight, EdD, LCSW

Welcome to the Symposium – Carrie Collier, PhD, LPC, CRC

Moderator: Laura R. Brooks, LCSW-C

Family Oneness and Its Variation - Robert J. Noone, PhD

While Bowen theory is not a theory about how the family evolved, but how it functions, evolutionary theory raises interesting questions about the family system. One of the questions raised is related to the observation that the functioning of the human family predictably results in a decrease of the adaptive capacity (differentiation of self) of one or more of offspring. And over multiple generations, families generate increasingly lower levels of adaptive capacity as well as stable or even higher levels. In this presentation, it will be suggested that selection, operating simultaneously at the levels of the individual and the family would account for the range of adaptiveness among individuals.

Prairie Dogs and a Systems Model for Family Assessment: Implications for Research and Clinical Practice - Barbara Laymon, PhD, MPH

When Bowen said that the “dance of life” among people is more similar than dissimilar to the dance of other species, he broadened the study of relationship processes to include cute, furry, and occasionally deadly rodents: prairie dogs. Prairie dogs – burrowing creatures living in territorial family groups – provide a test case for Papero’s (2018) systems model for family assessment. Applications for clinical practice will be discussed.

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Groups as Organisms: Implications for Therapy and Training - David Sloan Wilson, PhD

Bowen theory’s systemic orientation stands in contrast with Individualism as the dominant intellectual tradition of the last 70 years. Individualism is at last yielding to Multilevel Selection (MLS) theory, which shows that functional organization can evolve (or fail to evolve) at any level of a multi-tier hierarchy of social units, such as from genes to ecosystems in biological systems and from individuals to global governance in human systems. He will provide an overview of MLS theory and the need for therapy and training to take place at the level of functionally oriented groups in addition to the individual person.

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57th Symposium on Family Theory and Family Psychotherapy - Friday Morning

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