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Family Arguments Acquire a Therapy Vocabulary but Still Need Listening
· New York time
Language associated with therapy has entered everyday conversation, including among some teenagers, prompting guidance for parents trying to understand what their children mean. A term can carry different weight in a family disagreement than it does in a clinical setting. Parents may find it useful to listen to the concern being expressed rather than assume that every familiar word is being used in the same way. The vocabulary has grown more specialized, but the work of understanding one another remains stubbornly ordinary. A new phrase does not automatically come with a household user manual.
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