A family seeks counseling at a community mental health center. The husband says to a nurse, "Every time we start to discuss rules for the children, we get into shouting matches. We can't ever settle on anything. We just shout at each other"
The nurse instructs the husband and wife to shout at each other for the next 2 weeks on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:30 to 7 P.M. This intervention is called:
A) Reframing.
B) Restructuring the family.
C) Expressive psychotherapy.
D) Paradoxical intervention.
D
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