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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by family therapy which

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according to family sitcoms everywhere can get to the underlying root of all [Family sitting on a couch]

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your problems in exactly twenty two and a half minutes... members can learn

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to recognize problems in successes of the unit and work together to improve

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its health and structure through what... and here are your potential answers...

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...now let's see we're looking for something that

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recognizes the problem of a unit recognizes the successes of a unit and

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improves the health and structure of the unit...how about we just

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lose those last two and voila the answer is this every family holiday [Family eating a meal together]

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get-together ever unfortunately that's not exactly allowed here so we'll have

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to figure out the real answer lithium is the obvious outlier is a chemical

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element alone isn't going to do everything we've outlined though a lithium

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powered speaker phone could be useful at especially boisterous family dinner and [Person using a lithium powered speaker phone at a family dinner]

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while slipping an SSRI or selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor into the

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turkey might mellow everyone out a little...[SSRI tablet inserted into a turkey]

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it's not what we're looking for either leaving us with A) B) and C) but which

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therapy are we describing here well it can't be A) because we're discussing [A crossed off]

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members plural, though individual therapy might very well be necessary after

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enduring group therapy with Uncle Bill and Aunt Peg and while B) and C) seem to

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be more or less the same the key to the question is in the word unit therapists

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in the field often think of families as individual units, so while family therapy [Therapist standing in a field]

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is seen as an extension or sub type of group therapy we're specifically talking

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about family therapy here because your family is ultimately your unit well in

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family therapy family members wanted to recognize the problems and successes of [Family in a therapy room]

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their family unit in order to work together to improve upon it and even

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though family therapy has been proven to be successful we won't hold it against [Family therapy stamped successful]

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you if you do happen to bring a few SSRI spiked turkey sandwiches to give

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everyone you know a little serotonin kick you know just move things along our

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lawyers are just freaking out right now..

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