The Family Systems Institute

L. MacKay and J. Brown (2014) Collaborative Approaches to Family Systems Supervision - Differentiation of Self

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Cooper et al. (2023) Exploring changes in family functioning when a child participates in a School-Based Filial Therapy program

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Using Bowen theory as the guiding theoretical framework, this article presents a research project that examines the impact of children’s participation in School Based Filial Therapy upon family functioning. Keywords: Bowen Family Systems Theory, fam

V. Harrison (2013) A Wider Lens: Bowen Theory and a Natural Systems View of Symptoms

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M. Palombi (2016), Separations - A Personal Account of Bowen Family Systems

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This paper offers a personal account of a therapists own family of origin research. It explores the impact of separations from parents, nuclear family, and extended family through a Bowen family systems theory perspective.

L. MacKay (2012) Trauma and Bowen Family Systems Theory: Working with Adults Who were Abused as Children

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This paper combines the family systems approach and recent brain research to trauma. It considers how post trauma symptoms are viewed as part of the ‘family emotional process’ even when traumatic events have emanated from outside the family system

J. Brown and L. Errington (2019) Bowen family systems theory in Christian ministry; Introduction

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In this introductory chapter the authors provide a brief description of the theory, and its key concepts. It provides a sketch of Bowen’s theory of change, and how that interacts with the Bible’s as a work of both Holy Spirit and human responsibility