When asking, "What has changed between you and your spouse since your child's head injury?" the nurse is using the focus of family as:

a. The context
b. The client
c. A system
d. A component of society


C
The focus is on the family as client, and the family is viewed as an interactional system in which the whole is more than the sum of its parts.

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