A Couple with a 7-Year-Old Child Has Been Experiencing Growing

A couple with a 7-year-old child has been experiencing growing tension and anxiety in the relationship. However, the tension and anxiety between the couple lessened when the mother began focusing most of her attention on the child. When applying the family systems therapy model concept of triangulation, what would the nurse expect to assess in the child?

A) Enjoying the mother's increasing attention and growing even closer to her
B) Growing distant from the father and blaming him for all of the family's problems
C) Developing problematic symptoms in response to the mother's increasing attention
D) Resenting the mother for her suffocating attention and the father's growing distance