The opening to the Multicultural Therapy chapter includes one Dutch family's experience of a family therapy session with American family therapy pioneer, Carl Whitaker. The family reportedly experienced Whitaker's interventions as disrespectful and unhelpful. The central implication of this vignette is that:
a. family therapy does not work very well with Northern European families.
b. Dutch upper-middle-class families respond more positively to Dutch therapists.
c. all therapists should work to avoid the presumptive error of importing their culture's system of psychotherapy into a therapy with people of another culture.
d. therapists from one culture should not provide therapy for clients from other cultures.
C
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