1. If you were a client, what kind of relationship would you expect and value? What conditions would you probably put on the relationship?
2. What role has culture played in some of your past relationships with teachers, coaches, counselors? Have your past experiences given you any insight into
how culture may influence your interactions with clients?
3. In the chapter, Gladstein’s (1983) counterintuitive comment that empathy can, at times, interfere with a client reaching his or her goals. What do you make
of this assertion? Can you think of an example when this might be the case?