Author Question: In psychoanalytic family therapy, when the therapist dismisses the symptomatic child from therapy ... (Read 149 times)

ec501234 · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

In psychoanalytic family therapy, when the therapist dismisses the symptomatic child from therapy and proceeds to work with the couple to address the issues that created the need for the child's symptoms, the therapist is doing what type of intervention?

A) Interpreting
B) Detriangulating
C) Working through
D) Eliciting

Question 2

Which of the following would NOT be considered a goal in psychoanalytic therapy?

A) Increase autonomy and ego-directed action by making conscious processes unconscious
B) Decrease interactions based on projections or a revolving slate of entitlements
C) Increase capacity for intimacy without loss of self (fusion with object)
D) Develop reciprocal commitments that include a fair balance of entitlements and indebtedness