exam 1

Question 1

9 Guiding Assumptions

Answer 1

1. God is already active in the counselee.
2. Complex problems do not demand complex solutions
3. finding exceptions helps create solutions
4. The counselee is always changing.
5. The counselee is the expert and defines goals
6. solutions are cocreated
7. The counselee is not the problem: the problem is.
8. the counseling relationship is positional.
9. if it’s not broken, don’t fix it.

Question 2

Jim Frey’s solution-focused

Answer 2

1. Finds out what the counselee wants.
2. Looks for what God has already placed into the counselee’s life that is working and encourages him to do more of that.
3. Does something different. If something is not working try something else.

Question 3

Eric Erickson’s 8 developmental stages

Answer 3

1. Trust/Mistrust
2. Autonomy/Doubt
3. Initiative/Guilt
4. Industry/Inferiority
5. Identity/ Role Confusion
6. Intimacy/Isolation
7. Generatively/ Stagnation
8. Integrity/ Despair (old age)