The basic premise of family therapy is:

a.) the entire family is viewed as the unit of treatment, even if only one of the members receives a clinical diagnosis.
b.) each of the family members must be diagnosed if an insurance company is to pay for the treatment.
c.) it is far easier to bring about change in family therapy as the therapist can side with the parents and convince the child that they need to fix their own problem.
d.) parents are usually the problem and the therapist can only prove that point with them in the therapy room.

Ans: a.) the entire family is viewed as the unit of treatment, even if only one of the members receives a clinical diagnosis.