Author Question: In therapy, you are working with parents and their 11-year-old daughter. In the beginning, both ... (Read 63 times)

imowrer · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

In therapy, you are working with parents and their 11-year-old daughter. In the beginning, both parents want their daughter to take more responsibility for getting her homework and chores done; however, their daughter does not want to give up her childhood and assume personal responsibility. In the early stages of therapy, a shift occurs, and suddenly you notice the daughter pulling away from her parents and doing more things on her own, while her parents begin lamenting the days when their daughter needed them more. This is an example of:

A) radical change.
B) expected change.
C) first-order change.
D) second-order change.

Question 2

During the early stages of counseling, shifts in family structure can seem like radical change, but the underlying family rules remain the same. To what kind of change does this refer?

A) Radical change
B) Expected change
C) First-order change
D) Second-order change