Abimbola is a Nigerian immigrant who has been separated from her family and friends for over a year since she came to South Africa with her husband. She spends her days taking care of their two young children while he goes to work, and feels increasingly depressed without her support system. It is likely that a family therapist who meets Abimbola would:
A) prescribe her antidepressant medication.
B) be very interested in how her depression affects others in the family and how it influences family process.
C) abandon using a systems approach, and treat her with cognitive behavioural methods.
D) be directive and tell her to convince her husband to go back to Nigeria so she will once again have family support.
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