Section 1
Reflecting on Your Family of Origin
Which roles did your family members take as you were growing up?
Do you think your family had rigid boundaries, diffuse boundaries, or something in between? Describe those boundaries and explain how they impacted your family.
Were there predictable patterns of behavior that you could identify in yourself and in the various members of your family?
What would happen if the behavior of a member in your family deviated from expected patterns?
Was there a family member who was scapegoated or an identified patient?
How did your family handle conflict?
When your family experienced periods of stress, how were they handled?
Which situational crises did you or members of your family experience? How were they handled?