Mary believes that her husband John is having an affair because he has become increasingly distant and disinterested in romantic activities over the past several months and stays late at work
John is in charge of an important project at work that is running behind and claiming more and more of his time. Mary asks her 12-year-old daughter if she has noticed anything different about her father. The daughter later mentions this to her father, who responds by telling the daughter to tell her mother that he cannot deal with her insecurities right now. The nurse family therapist should assess this phenomenon as: a. triangulation.
b. multigenerational dysfunction.
c. blaming.
d. enmeshment.
A
Triangulation is a family dynamic wherein a pair relationship (usually the parents) is under stress and copes by drawing in a third person (usually a child) to align with one or the other members of the pair relationship. Multigenerational dysfunction is any dysfunction which exists within or across multiple generations of a family, such as child abuse or alcoholism. Blaming is distracting attention from one's own dysfunction or reducing one's own anxiety by blaming another person. Enmeshment refers to blurred family boundaries or blending together of the thoughts, feelings, or family roles of the individuals so that clear distinctions among members fail to emerge.
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