choose 1 or 2 topics from the list, no more than 2 topics to discuss for your reflection paper. Use the rubric categories’ (see below) to structure your paper to earn full credit.
A reflection paper is a personal essay, kind of like a structured journal entry, you are writing about yourself, and your family experiences informed by the theory/concepts in the textbook. There should be no textbook quotes, you may choose to define the topic you choose by writing 2-3 sentences at the start of your reflection, otherwise no quotes or textbook language is used.
question
1.Do any of the topics connect with other readings, lectures, or experiences you’ve had? How would you integrate these ideas or facts with what you already know or think about this subject? How could you apply what you experienced or learned to your existing schema (knowledge base)?
TOPICS TO CHOOSE FROM: (any 2 topics)
1.Enabling and Disabling Families
2.Family Interactive Patterns
3.Homeostasis (chapt. 4)
4.Linear vs. Circular Causality
5.Post Modern outlook
6.The Identified Patient
7.Family Resilience
8.The Family Life Cycle Framework
9.Developmental Stages
10.Family Transitions
11.Horizontal/Vertical stressors
12.Symptomatic Behavior
13.Transgenerational Models
14.Bowen’s Theory
15.Differentiation of Self
16.Triangles
17.Emotional cutoff
18.Multigenerational Transmission Process
19.Sibling Positioning
20.Genogram
21.Contextual Family Therapy (invisible loyalties, family ledger, family legacy)
22.Psychodynamic Model
23.Freud’s role in family therapy
24.View of Classical Psychoanalysis
25.Defense Mechanisms
26.Transference
27.Countertransference
28.Resistance
29.Object Relations Theory
30.The Structural Model (Minuchin)
31.Psychosomatic Families
32.Family Subsystems
33.Boundaries
34.Coalitions/Alliances
35.Power hierarchy
36.The Oedipal Son case video
