Social workers can encourage clients to engage in self-confrontation by:

A) ?employing the aggressive-passive style of communication.
B) ?asking them questions that cause them to reflect on the relationship between their behaviors and their own values.
C) ?making several additive empathic responses in succession when meeting a client for the first time.
D) ?phrasing interpretive responses to the client's opinion in absolute terms without leaving any scope for confusion rather than using tentative terms.


B

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