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

1. The context
2. The client
3. A system
4. A component of society


ANS: 3
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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