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bucstennis@aim.com · **on:** Jul 19, 2018

During family counseling a child states, I just want to surf like other kids. Mom says it's okay, but Dad says I'm too young. The mother allows surfing when the father is absent.

In the structural model of family therapy, what family interactional pattern should the nurse recognize? A. Multigenerational transmission
B. Disengagement
C. Motherchild subsystem
D. Emotional cutoff

Question 2

During family counseling a husband states, Every time my wife and I discuss child discipline, we get into shouting matches. The nurse instructs the couple to shout at each other for 2 weeks on Tuesdays and Thursdays for 30 minutes.

What intervention is the nurse using? A. Reframing
B. Restructuring the family
C. Expressive psychotherapy
D. Paradoxical intervention

katkat_flores · **Reply #1 on:** Jul 19, 2018

Answer to Question 1

C
In this situation the mother and child have formed a subsystem in which they have aligned themselves against the father.

Answer to Question 2

D
In a paradoxical intervention, the therapist requests the family to continue the maladaptive behavior. This removes control over the behavior from the family to the therapist. Clients are made more aware of the defeating behavior and this can lead to behavioral change.