Practice Quiz

Marital and Family Therapy

Category - Law & Ethics

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When a family is being treated as an individual unit, what control can a therapist exert on the behavior of one or more members in order to bring about the necessary change?
  1. As much as is needed to facilitate change
  2. As much as the family will allow
  3. None; change comes from the family’s adaptation to changing understanding
  4. As much as is required to bring about self-reliance
Explanation
Answer - C - Change will come from within the family and while individuals can certainly contribute to how much they are willing to change, the family will need to change from the inside out when bringing about necessary change to the system. The exerting control isn’t so much about what the therapist can do, so much as how the individual may choose to change.
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