ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the practical-material survival response looking at the following: when can the client's situation are called threatening in the practical-material sense? and when do practical-material bottlenecks deliver stress because the practical needs are not met or not enough? It addresses how does practical-material stress take place? The chapter also addresses what is meant by the 'problem-solving cycle'? It describes what practical-material method can contribute to the deployment of the client's own power to reduce physical stress? The chapter focuses on disentangling practical and procedural knots in the areas of housing, money and provisions, in order to reduce its burdens. It also focuses on reducing tensions due to clients' problems in managing their practical business. The chapter entails making an inventory of all the practical problems and possible solutions as well as a stepwise reduction of the material problem areas. Material problems involve questions and problems concerning rights, provisions and legal obligations.
