A 4-year-old boy is being treated for leukemia. His older brother, age 7, regresses and starts to suck his thumb and wet the bed at night
The parents recognize that these behaviors are the older brother's way of expressing his fears and anxieties about his younger brother's life-threatening illness. They do not punish him for these behaviors; instead, they work out a schedule where when one parent is with the younger brother during treatments, the other parent takes the older brother on an outing and offers to talk about the situation. Which of the following does NOT describe one of Bowen's concepts that the members of this family are demonstrating? a. relativistic thinking
b. high level of differentiation
c. family projection process
d. sibling position
C
This family is not experiencing family projection process. Family projection process describes the situation where adult family members deal with their own anxiety in relationships by projecting the anxiety onto a child. In this situation, another child, the 7-year-old son, is regression, but no adult is projecting his or her fears onto the 4-year-old.
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