If a symbolic-experiential therapist, working with a family says to the father, “When did you divorce your wife and marry your daughter?” the therapist is attempting to ______________________________________________
a. be playful and therefore decrease resistance
b. help the client to separate personal issues from interpersonal issues
c. expand the symptom from an individual matter to a family matter
d. affectively confront the family to interrupt rigid patterns
ANS: D
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