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Old Jan 06, 2007, 02:46 AM
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Jon, my T has given me assignments a few times but never asked about them the next time we meet. I have come to assume that the assignments are for my benefit and it is not necessarily mandatory that we discuss them. He always leaves it up to me as to how I want to spend the time in therapy, and I have felt the assignments had value just for myself. Rather than discuss the homework per se, you could always just take the therapy in the direction you decided you wanted in the homework, which after all, was the assignment. So discuss the content of the homework, rather than the homework itself, if that makes sense.

I think if you feel it will be valuable to share the actual homework with your T, then you should go ahead. Write it down on a piece of paper and walk into the session holding the paper, then you can't pretend like it doesn't exist, and your T might even ask you about it.

Good luck.

sunny
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