Jim is 14 years old and was recently suspended from school for repeated incidents of physical aggression with his peers. Jim's parents brought him to therapy to help him learn better ways of "managing his anger". During the initial interview, Jim's parents admitted that their relationship has been turbulent for the past 5 years, and they have been verbally and physically aggressive with each other. They also reported that in the past two years, they have regularly told Jim that he was stupid and problematic, mostly because they're "at their wits end" and "don't know what to do with him". Jim's disclosure of feeling pressure from his mother to align with her would likely happen in which of the following stages of therapy
What will be an ideal response?
Chaos
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What will be an ideal response?
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A) ?Oral stage B) ?Anal stage C) ?Phallic stage D) ?Latency stage
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a. increase family cohesion - create a sense of nurturance and confidence in problem solving. b. promote personal growth- support the completion of developmental tasks for all family members. c. establish effective parental hierarchy and sever cross-generational coalitions. d. expand the family’s symbolic world.
According to your text, although there were isolated episodes of inhalant abuse prior to the turn of the last century, it
a. gradually evolved into a phenomenon that involved inhaling the fumes of toluene exclusively. b. became more popular in the 1900s when industrial solvents became available for abuse. c. tended to be ignored by the mainstream media until the late 1990s. d. has not continued to be a social problem since other drugs are available to people who would have formerly abused solvents alone.