Adopting a Family Systems Perspective Means

question 18

Multiple Choice

Adopting a family systems perspective means

• A) you cannot fully understand a person without knowing something about his or her family.
• B) you will always observe and analyze families by paying attention to the relationships among members as opposed to paying attention only to one individual.
• C) you realize that what may be viewed as problematic behavior in one setting may be functional in another context.
• D) you realize that a change in one part of the system affects every part of the system.
• E) you do all of the above.

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