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Emotional cutoff
is the result of a person’s inability to directly resolve issues of fusion, which in
turn prevents him or her from forming a unique identity or satisfying relationships with others.
In situations where the family is living together, emotional cutoff may be
characterized by physical avoidance of another person or, more commonly, not
discussing emotionally charged topics.
For example, a son in conflict with his
mother may be pleased to talk about what happened at school, but they may
avoid discussing how the...
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Emotional cutoff is often seen in physi...
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Adolescents may be eager
to leave home as a solution to their family problems. Again, this may represent a
normal family transition. However, when distance alone is seen as a solution to
ongo...
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An important aspect of emotional cutoff is that the person experiencing
it is usually not aware of the strength of the pull of the primary relationsh...
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ol...
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more responsible and cons...
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you...
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are more sociable
and re...
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Change requires detriangulation and new alliance building among members
of the nuclear and extended family.
The social worker attends
to the following
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Lowering the anxiety present in the f...
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Increasing the reflective capacit...
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Promoting differe...
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reali...
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identifying and adjusting symptomat...
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and opening
up cut-off rela...
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Instilling member sensitivity to the influences of multigenerational family
patterns on t...
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Improving the family’s ability to share their systemic concern...
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Readdressing ineq...
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by inhibiting members who are
behaving in inappropriate...
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Like ego psychology, the theory offers broad interve...
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The Social Worker/Client Rel...
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intervention
setting as safe, comfortable, and relatively free of the anxiety that tends to characteri...
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acts as a ...
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remains on the sidelines of family interaction,
asking questions
making sugge...
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The practitioner strives to be the focus of the family’s attention and to set the t...
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c...
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promote an unheated at...
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main...
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professional deta...
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The purposes of this posture are to avoid
emotional reactivity and negative triangula...
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serves as a model for rational in...
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In the early stages of intervention, the social worker may ask family members ...
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about sensitive ...
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to minimize interpersonal...
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practitioner can use displacem...
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hypothetical ...
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three genera...
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By participating in the construction of the genogram, family members gain
insight into their family processes.
They learn about interpersonal patterns and
how triangles operate within the family.
each member is physically observing a diagram, rather...
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any strategy by which the practitioner disrupts one triangle
opens up the family members to new, more functional alliances or triangles.
There are many ways in which the social worker can detriangulate the family
shift alliances
