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1. The Power of Family Therapy

   1. Continue to explore and refine communication strategies.
   2. Address any emerging issues or conflicts in a proactive and constructive manner.
   3. Evaluate progress and make adjustments to the action plan as necessary.
   • Reduced Defensiveness: Teens often resist parents but open up to aunts/uncles if therapy mediates the power imbalance.
   • Externalized Blame: The therapist acts as a “referee,” allowing the aunt to step back from being the bad cop.
   • Narrative Reconstruction: The nephew can rewrite his story of abandonment without blaming the aunt.