Read case study & answer questions below: Exploring Interpersonal Patterns Read the following clinical material. Indicate in

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Exploring Interpersonal Patterns Read the following clinical material. Indicate in the space provided three or more reflective ques- tions. What attitudes do you bring to the picture, and how might they affect the family? Do you think they might be therapeutic, nontherapeutic, or countertherapeutic? Answer the questions that follow the dialogue. Lisa and Cathy have been together for 15 years. Lisa is a veterinarian, and Cathy teaches part time at a nursery school. They share a home in an afflu- ent neighborhood. They have always been finan- cially comfortable. However, lately finances have become a problem. Unaccustomed to having to budget their money, they have been quarreling. Neither seems to understand the other's perspec- tive. Fights about money have opened up other long-simmering issues between them. LISA: I have always made more money than Cathy, and it has never been a problem. We shared ev- erything and never worried about who made more than whom. Cathy seems to resent me when I tell her that we have to cut back. get CATHY: I understand that your practice isn't as suc- cessful now as it always was, but it will get better again. We have plenty of money saved, so I don't the urgency. This just feels typically controlling of you. You have a problem, and I have to toe the line. (To the therapist): She is so controlling, and I am sick of it. You know, without telling me, she canceled our vacation. LISA: No I didn't. I just canceled what we were go- ing to do. I canceled our trip to Egypt and Greece, but I had no intention of canceling our vacation. I just wanted to plan a less expensive one. I had every intention of including you in the planning of where we could go instead. CATHY: And you don't see the problem in that? LISA: No, I put down the deposit on the trip, so I just canceled it. Exploring Interpersonal Patterns Read the following clinical material. Indicate in the space provided three or more reflective ques- tions. What attitudes do you bring to the picture, and how might they affect the family? Do you think they might be therapeutic, nontherapeutic, or countertherapeutic? Answer the questions that follow the dialogue. Lisa and Cathy have been together for 15 years. Lisa is a veterinarian, and Cathy teaches part time at a nursery school. They share a home in an afflu- ent neighborhood. They have always been finan- cially comfortable. However, lately finances have become a problem. Unaccustomed to having to budget their money, they have been quarreling. Neither seems to understand the other's perspec- tive. Fights about money have opened up other long-simmering issues between them. LISA: I have always made more money than Cathy, and it has never been a problem. We shared ev- erything and never worried about who made more than whom. Cathy seems to resent me when I tell her that we have to cut back. get CATHY: I understand that your practice isn't as suc- cessful now as it always was, but it will get better again. We have plenty of money saved, so I don't the urgency. This just feels typically controlling of you. You have a problem, and I have to toe the line. (To the therapist): She is so controlling, and I am sick of it. You know, without telling me, she canceled our vacation. LISA: No I didn't. I just canceled what we were go- ing to do. I canceled our trip to Egypt and Greece, but I had no intention of canceling our vacation. I just wanted to plan a less expensive one. I had every intention of including you in the planning of where we could go instead. CATHY: And you don't see the problem in that? LISA: No, I put down the deposit on the trip, so I just canceled it.