Applications of Bowen Family Systems Theory
Papers Presented at The Georgetown Family Center's
Conference on Organizations April 22-23, 1995
Edited by Patricia A. Comella,
Joyce Bader, Judith S. Ball,
Kathleen K.Wiseman, and Ruth Riley Sagar
CONTENTS
Part 1: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS
A Brief Summary of Bowen Family
Systems Theory
Patricia A. Comella, JD
The Extension of
Bowen Theory to Nonfamily Groups
Michael E. Kerr, MD
Rethinking the Consultant's
Role
Joyce Bader, MS
Part 2. THE ORGANIZATION AS AN EMOTIONAL SYSTEM
Life at Work: The
View from the Bleachers
Kathleen K. Wiseman, MBA
The Emotional Side
of Re-Engineered and Re-Invented Workplaces
Patricia A. Comella, JD
Anxiety and Organizations
Daniel V. Papero, PhD
Part 3. HUMAN SOCIAL SYSTEMS
Bowen Theory:Potential
Implications for the Field of Corrections
Ann Bunting, PhD
Consulting to Russian-American
Joint Ventures
Katharine G. Baker, DSW
Violence in the
Workplace: A Family Systems Perspective
Walter H. Smith, Jr., PhD
Part 4. DEFINING A SELF WITHIN SOCIAL SYSTEMS
Leadership from
the Viewpoint of Bowen Theory
Paulina McCullough, MSW
Consultant as Sponge:
An Evolutionary Journey
Judith S. Ball, MS Ed.
Teaching Bowen Family
Systems Theory
Selden Dunbar Illick, LCSW
A Graduate Nursing
Course Using Bowen Theory
Gail Hilbert, DNSC
Part 5. CASE STUDIES
Cooperation, Leaders,
and Anxiety
Andrea Maloney-Schara, LCSWA
The Influence of
Anxiety within a Business
Kent E. Webb, LCSW
Bowen Family Systems
Theory as a Framework for Consultants
Leslie Ann Fox, MA, RRA
The School as an
Emotional System
Roger Dillow, MA, MSW
Part 6. PRACTITIONERS
"I" Openings: Bowen
Theory as a Framework to Sustain Planned Change
Peter F. Norlin, PhD
Bringing Bowen Theory
to the Organization Behavior Classroom
Morley Segal, PhD
Differentiation
and Triangles in Coaching Executives
Richard D. Olson, PhD
Diversity and Differentiation
Norman Leigh Jones, MA
Organizational Dynamics
and the Clergy
V. Sue Zabel, PhD
The Contemporary
Organization
Robert Cahill, MBA
Part 7. NONHUMAN SOCIAL SYSTEMS
Leadership in Nonhuman
Social Systems: The Chimpanzees of Gombe
Kathleen B. Kerr, MSN, MA
Lessons from Nature
on Leadership
Stephanie J. Ferrera, MSW
A Natural Systems
View of Hierarchy
Roberta M. Gilbert, MD
