The Family Diagram app has launched a discussion forum to facilitate user inquiries. This platform allows questions about the app and Bowen Theory, enhancing communication and promoting the spread of ideas surrounding family systems.
At long last, the v2.0 beta version of the app is available! Check out the video below showing some of the new features. Click here
The Family Diagram app is undergoing a second phase of development. This second phase builds on countless observations and conversations with both clients and the most experienced professionals of Bowen Theory. This phase will simplify the app into one data entry form that automatically builds an animated timeline and diagram for you.
Anyone can download and play with Copilot free here: https://alaskafamilysystems.com/family-diagram/family-diagram-phase-2-beta/
It is so wild to finally see this prototype Bowen Theory Copilot working!
It's not very smart yet, but so much more to come!
Computer Science relates to Biology as the science of modeling behavior in general. Though "science" has many components, formal hypothesis testing in Biology will bring theory and model closer together until they unite into a hard science.
Some experiments with using ChatGPT to code for qualitative research. As always I started with something too complicated.
https://github.com/patrickkidd/ci_vectors
An idea for necessary conditions for "anxiety": a sufficient combination of perceived *uncertainty* and *urgency*.
Uncertainty is the result of a lack of cognitive capacity.
The resulting autonomic response is the initiation of an evolved search path to reduce the uncertainty.
Coaching services based in Bowen theory are now offered over Zoom with Family Diagram on screen-share.
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Most thinking about research in Bowen Theory occurs at the theoretical level. This is understandable considering almost all of the applicable literature on Bowen Theory
The field of Clinical Psychology has no broad, predictive theory to diagnose and guide the treatment of behavioral problems. Bowen theory is one attempt to
The kindergarten of organizing data on family emotional process.
This is a collection of a model of emotion meant to move concepts in Bowen Theory toward more model able definitions. Bowen Theory is an
This video covers using tags to stack horizontal rows of events in the visual timeline for comparison. It also reviews adding tags to events to
One important requirement for Bowen theory in science is a standardized methodology with which to track what theory describes as “emotional process.” This is a
Here is a video describing an first essential step in entering a case into a family diagram. An essential first step in making use of
In this video, Katherine Kott, Ph.D. MSLS, interviews Laura Havstad, Ph.D., and Patrick Stinson, Psy.D. on the topic of clinical research and the Family Diagram
Applications are now open for the 2022/2023 Family Diagram App Seminar. Applications will be accepted until the seminar is full. Information about format, schedule, and
Here is an experimental agent model of the first two paragraphs of Jack Calhoun’s Mythematical Pool Game, published in his article Space and the Strategy
Applications are now open for the 2021/2022 Family Diagram App Seminar. Applications are due October 1. However, there are limited spots available so acceptance is
Version 1.3.0 of Family Diagram has been released with theoretical clarifications and improvements from user feedback. These changes are one more step toward making it
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An accepted science of human behavior, rooted in biology and complex systems, would predict shifts in processes under specified conditions. Psychology would be an effort to account for the content of those processes. If psychology is to become an accepted science, it will have to make conceptual contact with whatever part of nature that computer science is attempting to study.
