An Internal Family Systems Therapist Observes That His Teenaged Client

question 22

Multiple Choice

An internal family systems therapist observes that his teenaged client is rebelliously acting out at home and her parents are frantically trying to manage the teen with greater and greater punishments. How would the therapist identify this polarization?

• A) Enmeshment between parts
• B) Manager-manager polarizations
• C) Manager-exile polarizations
• D) Manager-firefighter polarizations

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