How to Coach Yourself and Others Coaching Families

Normal Family Development To Bowen, all families lie along a continuum. While you might try to classify families as falling into discreet groups, there really are no "types" of families, and most families of one type could become a family of another type if their circumstances changed. In many ways, Bowen was among the first of the culturally sensitive family therapists. Bowen believed that optimal family development occurs when family members are differentiated, feel little anxiety regarding the family, and maintain a rewarding and healthy emotional contact with each other. Fogarty offers that adjusted families           are balanced in terms of their togetherness and separateness, and can adapt to changes in the environment view emotional problems as coming largely from the greater system but as having some components in the individual member are connected across generations to extended family have little emotional fusion and distance have dyads that can deal with problems between them without pulling others into their difficulties tolerate and support members who have different values and feelings, and thus can support differentiation are aware of influences from outside the family (such as Societal Emotiona

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