Card 67 / 153: A family is seeing a structural family therapist because there is a huge argument every time the subject of the 16-year-old daughter’s boyfriend comes up. The therapist says, “Okay, I want you to play like you are at home and act out precisely what transpires when the subject of your daughter’s boyfriend is mentioned.” The structural family therapist is using a technique called
A) joining.
B) reframing (defi ned as an alternative way of describing or perceiving an event).
C) enactment.
D) cognitive disputation

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