Mindy's therapist is asking her to consider the ways in which her mother treated her and how that treatment may have an impact on the ways in which mindy treats her own children today. on the basis of the given information, we can say that mindy's clinician is applying the approach.

The correct answer is the erational family therapy approach. The erational family therapy approach is being defined as a family therapy approach in which the therapist is trying to consider factors that will affect the individual and as well as the other people that the individual may impact others based on the factors that the individual is exposed to.