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Assignment:
Self-Awareness - journaling
1. Self-evaluate your personal comfort when confronting others.
a. What people would you have difficulty confronting?
b. Do you avoid confronting?
c. Think of times when it was reasonable to confront but you didn't. What prevented you from confronting?
d. Finish the following sentence: When I confront, I feel
Evaluate the effectiveness of each of the confrontations below; suggest improvements:
a. Try to do better next time.
b. You're an idiot.
c. You're saying that you're okay, yet you're crying.
d. Grow up and act your age.
e. As long as you continue to act like a doormat, you're going to get abused.
If you are serious about protecting yourself, leave him.
Explore the potential benefits and risks of each of the following actions:
a. having an unlisted phone number
b. making home visits alone
c. making home visits only when accompanied by a colleague
d. conducting joint interviews for potentially hostile clients
e. using only your first name with clients
f. knowing that a client has a history of violence
g. interviewing a client with a police officer present
h. refusing to see a client with a history of violence
i. striking a client to defend yourself
j. calling the police
k. warning an intended victim
l. seeing a client who has been drinking
Hamachek (1982) says, "Do not confront another person if you do not wish to increase your involvement with that individual"
Develop a rationale that supports this statement.