“…While there is literature on providing counseling either for couples who are from different linguistic and cultural backgrounds (Tien, Softas-Nall, & Barritt, 2017) or for children alone (Linde, 1986), work that focuses on the whole family is comparatively sparse (Softas-Nall, Cardona, & Barritt, 2015). This may be because of a hierarchical family structure adopted in some cultures, preventing children from being active participants in family discourse (Daly, 2005; Pećnik, Matić, & Milaković, 2016; Softas-Nall et al, 2015), an aspect that becomes particularly apparent in family language choice and family language policy (Little, 2017).…”