ABSTRACT
Adapted from group work, the “Mom Always Said …” sentence completion form by Krajeacki and Linhardt (unpublished) is completed by each participant in the therapy. It elicits the perceived values of one’s parents and the values of the parents themselves as they report them. It is somewhat similar to obtaining the “scripts” and “tapes” of families in Transactional Analysis. As with all sentence completion techniques, it is a projective device. It is adapted here for couple and family therapy by John Linhardt. * We include it as a technique because it is a clinical device rather than a statistically reliable and valid measuring instrument.
