A community mental health nurse working with a family demonstrating emotional abuse of a child
by the father has put several interventions in place designed to stabilize the home and maintain a
violence-free atmosphere.
Several weeks later the child tells the nurse that his parents and all the
children go to a clinic and talk to a man about how to get along. He says the man asked him how he
felt when his dad called him "stupid," and that his dad cried when the child described feeling
"awful.". The child is describing the type of therapy called
a. Parents Anonymous.
b. group therapy.
c. family therapy.
d. individual therapy.
C
Family therapy involves the entire family meeting with a family therapist to learn to listen to each
other and ultimately decrease the frequency and intensity of abuse. Option A: Parents Anonymous is
a self-help group for abusing parents. Option B: Group therapy would involve having the abuser
meet with other clients in a supportive atmosphere. Option D: Individual therapy would involve
meetings of a single client with a therapist.
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