Validating and affirming members of the family session

 
Discuss the importance of validating and affirming members of the family session. How did McLendon engage Janice and Jonathan to validate and/or affirm themselves and their experience.
Using the Whitaker,C. (2014). Experiential Family Therapy video.
https://www-psychotherapy-net.tcsedsystem.idm.oclc.org/stream/tcs/video?vid=248
Whitaker begins the session the session by addressing the father and not the son. Is this important, and what guides the therapist in deciding with whom to engage initially?
The role of Whitaker’s reference to Aaron’s father as the “oldest child in the family?
Was this a proper way to explore power dynamics within the family? Is there relevance to Whitaker’s theoretical construct of setting the therapeutic tone?
 
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