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| psychological isolation that results from overly rigid boundaries around individuals and subsystems in a family |
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| Loss of autonomy due to a blurring of psychological boundaries |
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| The idea that symptoms are often ways to distract or otherwise protect family members from threatening conflicts |
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| the study of control processes in systems, especially analysis if the flow of information in closed systems |
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| stages of family life from seperation from one's parents to marriage, having children, growing older, retirement, and death. |
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| redundant family behavioral patterns, norms, and expectations |
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| the functional organiztion of families that influence how family members interact. |
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| relabeling a family's description of behavior to make it more amenable to therapeutic change. |
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| smaller units in the family determined by generation, gender, or function |
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