The Opening to the Multicultural Therapy Chapter Includes One Dutch

question 2

Multiple Choice

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.