- What experiences and/or factors have contributed to your choice to pursue a career in marriage and family therapy?
- What is your personal belief about the basic nature of human beings (good/bad?, sinful?, holy?, basically flawed or basically normal/functional? etc.)?
- How do you determine what counts as knowledge (and/or truth)? If you were to learn about a new discovery, how would you determine the truthfulness or validity of the new information?
- Is permanent change in human behavior possible? Defend your answer with an example.
- What are your ideas about some of the important conditions for change in human behavior and relationships? What factors are most important? What factors are over or under-appreciated in our current culture?
- Based on your answer to the previous question, consider the process of change in human behavior. Specifically, consider whether people change because their thoughts/feelings/beliefs/values change (intrapsychic)…or because their context and interpersonal relationships change.
- What are my beliefs about the important characteristics for a therapist to possess (directive, reflexive, accepting, caring, challenging, dogmatic, neutral etc.). Why are these important?
- What are your thoughts about the role of marriage and family therapists in society as a whole? Why do we have therapists and what function do they serve in the big picture?
Nathen's Miraculous Escape
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