Turner speculated that Chelsea had been witnessing growing tensions between her parents for a while and could sense that anxiety in her communications with both, particularly her mother with whom he had formed an internal triangle relationship. Social emotional process The final concept of Bowenian theory is the social emotional process. This describes how the generalization of the emotional process can be attributed to explain the ebb and flow of anxiety that permeates a society (Kerr, 2000). While this was not entirely relevant to Dr Turner's decision to use BFT with the Morris family, she recognized that the Morrises' considerably high socio-economic status probably contributed to the feeling within the family unit of having to maintain appearances, and could therefore contribute to the anxiety of the family situation. Final