Author Question: When communicating with his family, Claude usually omits how he feels about them. In their therapy ... (Read 23 times)

SO00 · **on:** Jul 30, 2018

When communicating with his family, Claude usually omits how he feels about them. In their therapy sessions his wife is unable to reveal how she feels about his behavior. According to communication systems theory, Claude and his wife, respectively, would be examples of:

a. blamers, super reasonable communicators.
b. irrelevant communicators, placaters.
c. placaters, blamers.
d. super reasonable communicators, irrelevant communicators.

Question 2

According to communications systems theory, the most important initial objective for the therapist is to:

a. become more aware of who communicates to who, about what, and how.
b. clarify the family's rules for functioning.
c. look at the family's communication history.
d. understand the content of the family's communication.