ABSTRACT
His graph, incident ly, makes me wonder about his avo idance of aggressive, compet i t ive, and hostile behaviors. Some goals for this coup le w o u l d inc lude help ing h im realize that it is okay to have anger and help h im f ind some ways to show it in this relat ionship. The same is true for compe t i - tiveness. For her the goals w o u l d involve learning behaviors about asking for needs to be met and changing her attitude about not asking (for whatever reasons she currently holds). She needs to be comfortable expressing her anger and to become more managerial rather than recreate the drama she had as a little girl invo lv ing "p l a y i ng s tup id " and getting cr i t i c ized by her father. Those are feel ing, attitude, and behavior goals. W e w o u l d want to change the family structure and self-image th ink ing, as we l l . O n e change in structure wou ld be a change in the roles about init iating sexual contact in this family. But I w i l l ment ion more about that dur ing our coverage of paradoxical symptom prescr ipt ion. For now the concern is on diagnostic assessment and treatment p lanning.
