1. For school counselors: A teenage boy has had a sudden drop ingrades, totally out of character. When you see him for your firstsession what would be some of the questions you would ask him inyour initial assessment? What might you look for?
2. An elderly man comes in for therapy 4 months after his wifedied. He says he is there because his family is making him. Howwould you differentiate between normal grieving and majordepression. What questions would you ask and what do you lookfor?
3. What is there to learn for the legacy of loss and traumaticexperience (such as Jews in holocaust, being a veteran) and how itplays a role in a persons life? What cues do we look for in apersons history to see if they did experience it?
4. How is family intervention and family therapy beneficial andhow did family therapy evolve from the intrapsychic psychoanalyticand psychodynamic models?
