The concept of family therapy is based on the belief that the family is an interactional unit in which:

• A. All members provide support to each other
• B. All members influence each other
• C. All members have the same values and beliefs
• D. All members feel grief in the same manner

Answer: (B)

Family therapy treats the family as an interconnected system where each member’s behavior affects everyone else. Actions, words, and even silences ripple through the group, creating patterns that people fall into over time. This is why issues are understood as arising from the ongoing interactions among family members rather than from a single person. Because of circular causality, changing how one person communicates or responds can shift the whole dynamic and lead to new patterns that improve functioning. The strongest idea here is that all members influence each other through their interactions, and therapy aims to adjust those interaction patterns to bring about change. While support, shared values, or similar grief responses can occur, they don’t define how the family functions as a system.