I'm a bit of a goody two-shoes, but in therapy, that mostly just means I try to never intentionally be rude to my therapist. Our relationship isn't one where I think the word "compliance" could be appropriately used in the way you mean. I am not court-ordered to attend therapy. I am there because I choose to be and if I take my therapist's recommendations, that is also a choice. I've never gotten the impression that she conveys her recommendations with the assumption that I will comply. I would be lying if I said she approves of everything I do, though.

As for homework, my T doesn't assign me any. Sometimes we talk about things I might do between sessions to work on something in particular, but it's not like she orders me to do a, b, and c before the next session.