Family members, like clients, develop alternative solutions to symptoms in ways they can live with, and sometimes these alternative solutions are time-consuming, complex, and exacting. Therapists should always leave the possibility of family involvement on the table for clients. Sometimes it is even appropriate to make it a treatment condition. With adolescents or young adults who do not wish to involve family members, therapists will sometimes wait until the client feels sufficiently distressed by the family's "pushback" to raise the issue of family involvement again. Once a family is in the room, I don't necessarily go into nitty-gritty details of our work, but I talk about the treatment logic that is used, and in general terms, I talk about how families can act to help or harm the family. process. Sometimes family members need therapy to adjust to changes, especially if the problems are related to the loss or loss
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