EPPP Psychology

Category - Treatment, Intervention, Prevention, and Supervision

The term undifferentiated family ego mass refers to:
  1. A family member’s ability to separate their intellectual and emotional functioning
  2. A family whose members are highly emotionally fused
  3. A process by which parental conflicts are transmitted to children
  4. Recruiting a third person into a family system
Explanation
Answer: B - A family whose members are highly emotionally fused is an example of undifferentiated family ego mass.
Bowen’s extended family systems therapy uses the term undifferentiated family ego mass to refer to the family whose members are highly emotionally fused, meaning that their emotions are tight to the dominating emotions of the family. In such a family, the family members usually are high in differentiation. The other options above refer to other problematic situations in a family.
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