Read passage and answer questions below:

Passage 1

Generate a list of problems that families typically enter family therapy for. Discuss creative ways to translate linear explanations into circular or systemic explanations. Example: Family is overwhelmed and stressed because dad lost his job. Dad losing his job is the reason the family is stressed and entering therapy. Or so they think. Your job is to get the family to understand how they are contributing to or maintaining the problem

Passage 2

What do you believe to be the necessary and sufficient conditions for real therapeutic change to occur: a brief but decisive intervention in the family system or a long-term exploration of one's personality? Some argue that changes initiated via family therapy are lasting because change is exerted throughout the entire system--and each family member changes and continues to exert synchronous change on each other. Others assert that long-term, insight-oriented therapy is necessary to prevent a patient's personal pathology from reasserting itself