Some therapists actively discourage inter-family communication until participants have successfully separated themselves from their more intense emotions. The therapist steers conversation towards the client’s unresolved family issues. For example, if a parent exhibits unreasonable anger at a child’s behavior, it may be because the child’s behavior has triggered emotions related to unresolved issues from the parent’s own childhood. The family of origin might be one’s childhood family, one’s original family before divorce forced the formation of a blended family, or the extended family.