Chun Hei is a Korean immigrant who has been separated from her family and friends for over a year since she came to the U.S. with her husband. She spends her days taking care of their two young children while he goes to work, and feels increasingly depressed without her support system. It is likely that a family therapist who meets Chun Hei would:
a. prescribe her antidepressant medication.
b. be very interested in how her depression affects others in the family and how it influences family process.
c. abandon using a systems approach, and treat her with cognitive behavioral methods.
d. be directive and tell her to convince her husband to go back to Korea so she will once again have familysupport.
b
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