FAMILY SYSTEMS THEORY - created from Mind Map

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MINUCHIN ET AL

4 FEATURES

AUTONOMY AND CONTROL

THE MAIN SYMPTOMS OF AN

Focused on relationship between the mother and daughter

identified four main features of an AN family

Enmeshment

overprotectiveness

Conflict avoidance

Rigidity

over involved

over protective

self identities are all bound up

A an daughter wants to assert her independence so she refuses to eat

Try to protect from external threats

obsessively nurture eachother

no room for indipendence

mother sees self as sacrifice

an would go out their way to try and avoid conflict

they cant discuss the issues going on

She continues to starve herself because the family refuse to aknowledge anything is wrong

This is when they are inflexible

They dont give room for indipendence so the daughter doesnt eat to assert her indipendence

This is when the things written above mean that they cannot excersise autonomy and control .

Autonomy :is when you experience freedom and degree of indipendence from others

the father is involved .But it is the mother that is intrusive and does not accept her daughters need for indipendece.Therefore bruch stated that the daughters eating disorder was due to the lack of autonomy and control that she so craves

LOSS OF CONTROL

DISTORTED BODY IMAGE

INABILITY TO IDENTIFY INTERNAL BODY STATES IE HUNGER