Author Question: When parents are unable to resolve the conflicts between them, a common pattern is to continue to ... (Read 41 times)

stock · **on:** Jun 19, 2018

When parents are unable to resolve the conflicts between them, a common pattern is to continue to argue through the children. When father says mother is too permissive, she says he's too strict.

He may in turn withdraw, and she responds to
the child with excessive concern and devotion. The structural term which best
describes the resulting family structure is:
a. diffuse boundaries between husband and wife
b. a cross-generational coalition between mother and child
c. overinvolvement between father and child
d. a pathological triangle

Question 2

Structuralists believe the family must first accept the therapist, in a process called ________, which allows the therapist to increase stress and unbalance the family homeostasis, thus opening the way for structural transformation in the family.

a. detouring
b. taking an I position
c. restructuring
d. joining