Homework answers / question archive / 1) A) Do you find the concept of self-in-relation theory a good description of how women develop their sense of self? Why or why not? B) With whom did you develop the most significant relational images in your life? How have they affected you? 2) A) Does the idea of “client expertise” make sense to you? Why or why not? B) Do you agree that counselors should also grow in and through counseling relationships? Why or why not? 3) A) What benefits does this approach have for working in a school context? What limitations? B) In what ways does the co-construction of reality seem to make sense to you? In what ways does it not? 4) A) Use a scaling question with a current problem

1) A) Do you find the concept of self-in-relation theory a good description of how women develop their sense of self? Why or why not? B) With whom did you develop the most significant relational images in your life? How have they affected you? 2) A) Does the idea of “client expertise” make sense to you? Why or why not? B) Do you agree that counselors should also grow in and through counseling relationships? Why or why not? 3) A) What benefits does this approach have for working in a school context? What limitations? B) In what ways does the co-construction of reality seem to make sense to you? In what ways does it not? 4) A) Use a scaling question with a current problem

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1) A) Do you find the concept of self-in-relation theory a good description of how women develop their sense of self? Why or why not? B) With whom did you develop the most significant relational images in your life? How have they affected you?

2) A) Does the idea of “client expertise” make sense to you? Why or why not? B) Do you agree that counselors should also grow in and through counseling relationships? Why or why not?

3) A) What benefits does this approach have for working in a school context? What limitations? B) In what ways does the co-construction of reality seem to make sense to you? In what ways does it not?

4) A) Use a scaling question with a current problem. What are three small steps you can take during the next week to make small improvements? B) What strengths does this approach have for working with diverse clients? What limitations?

5) A) How do cultural communities function as a system in a person’s life? B) How do culture and gender play out in your family system?

6) A) Where are you currently in the family life cycle? How are you approaching the tasks of balancing independence and interdependence? B) Trace a problem interaction cycle in your life from “normal” through the rise in tension and symptom and back to “normal” again.

7) Identify a personal characteristic of yours that has a strong systemic component (i.e., you are this way more in one relationship than in another or it has been exaggerated over the years due to complementarity with a partner).

? Does this characteristic feel like it is an inherent characteristic of “you” or does it feel “situational”?

? Can you identify a characteristic of another person that seems “inherently in the individual” but may have more of a systemic basis to it?

? Would you agree that to some extent all behavior is shaped by broader systemic and social dynamics? Why or why not?

8) A) What would “joining the system” look like in your family of origin? B) Are you ready to “trust the system” to reorganize itself in a way that is best for itself? Why or why not?