When an internal family systems therapist is assessing the relationship between parts of individuals in relationships, they are looking for what types of patterns?
A) Triangulation and enmeshment
B) Polarization and paradoxes
C) Polarization and enmeshment
D) Triangulation and paradoxes

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Internal family systems therapy focuses on the relationship between parts within an individual. When assessing relationship patterns, the therapist will look for polarization, where parts are in opposition to each other, and enmeshment, where parts are overly fused or blended together. Triangulation and paradoxes may also emerge in the assessment, but are not the primary patterns that the therapist is looking for. Therefore, choice C, polarization and enmeshment, is the best answer.

When an Internal Family Systems Therapist Is Assessing the Relationship