The most important contraindication for marital therapy is
A. the fragility of one marital partner's defense.
B. paranoid reactions by a marital partner.
C. one partner's acting out behavior, e.g., infidelity, noncompliance with agreements.
D. the therapist's inability to prevent a marital partner from using sessions for aggressive, hostile and destructive purposes against his or her mate.
D. the therapist's inability to prevent a marital partner from using sessions for aggressive, hostile and destructive purposes against his or her mate.
It is well understood in couples work that when there is a threat of, or actual violence against one person by a partner, the therapy will be ineffective and will continue to place one person in a dangerous situation.
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