A wife believes her husband is having an affair. Lately, he has been disinterested in romance and working late. The husband has an important, demanding project at work. The mother asks her teen, "What have you noticed about your father?"
The teen later mentions this to the father, who says, "Tell your mother that I can't deal with her insecurities right now." Which family dynamic is evident?
a. Multigenerational dysfunction
b. Triangulation
c. Enmeshment
d. Blaming
ANS: B
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 that 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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