Author Question: You have been conducting family therapy in which the 7-year-old boy is the identified patient. ... (Read 27 times)

V@ndy87 · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

You have been conducting family therapy in which the 7-year-old boy is the identified patient.

After several sessions, you hypothesize that the boy's problems have caused marital conflict, but the parents disagree and resist the idea of focusing on their marriage in therapy. What ethical dilemma does this situation present?

a) Choice of goals for therapy
b) Choice of therapeutic techniques
c) Who is the client?
d) Confidentiality

Question 2

According to Vallis and associates at Dalhousie University, patients with high levels of personality dysfunction are unlikely to benefit from:

a) Brief drug therapy
b) Short-term behavioural therapy
c) Short-term dialectical behaviour therapy
d) Short-term cognitive therapy