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What is the family counselors approach to person-to-person relationships within the family?
 
  a) It is very important for the counselor to focus his or her efforts on helping the family understand its complex interdependence but not to focus on subsystems.
  b) While generally family counselors want the family to realize its complex interdependence, sometimes the best tactic is to strengthen communication between a pair of family members, particularly the parents.
  c) Dyads are the easiest, most manageable structure in the family so it is natural for the counselor to focus on them.
  d) Family counselors try to break up subsystems in the family because they detract from the family as a whole.
  e) That they are secondary to the unit.

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In the context of family therapy, what is externalization?
 
  a) The destructive practice of not taking responsibility for oneself.
  b) The destructive practice when a family focuses all energy within the boundaries of the family, ignoring outside input even when it might be helpful.
  c) The most well-known technique of narrative therapyit involves using language that separates the problem from the personal identity of the clients.
  d) The destructive practice when a family focuses all energy outside the boundaries of the family, ignoring what is going on in the family unit.
  e) The most well-known technique of behavioral therapyit involves examining what was going on in the environment when an unwanted family occurrence happened.



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Answer to Question 1

Answer: b

Answer to Question 2

Answer: c



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Both answers were spot on, thank you once again



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