During family counseling a child states, "I just want to surf like other kids. Mom says it's okay, but Dad says I'm too young."
The mother allows surfing when the father is absent. In the structural model of family therapy, what family interactional pattern should the nurse recognize?
A. Multigenerational transmission
B. Disengagement
C. Mother–child subsystem
D. Emotional cutoff
ANS: C
In this situation the mother and child have formed a subsystem in which they have aligned themselves against the father.
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