as time limits, action limits, role limits, and process limits. The following questions can be useful as guidelines for examining your own views on the

as time limits, action limits, role limits, and process limits. The following questions can be useful as guidelines for examining your own views on the degree of control you deem important both during the sessions and outside the therapy hour. 1. What effect does the counselor’s behavior have on the client in the session? 2. What matters of control should be clarified at the outset—length of session? Frequency of meetings? Duration of sessions? General goals? Contracts and assignments? Division of responsibility? Limitations? Confidentiality? 3. Should counselors outline or suggest certain themes or topics for the client to pursue in the sessions? 4. To what degree should counselors attempt to control the client’s behavior outside the session? 5. Should they ask the clients to keep journals, record dreams, think about certain topics, and so on? 6. Should they encourage clients to go further and put into practice what they have been exploring? Should “homework assignments” be given? Should contracts be developed? Who should develop these—the counselor, the client, or both? What is the value of assignments and contracts? 7. Who should decide when the client is ready to terminate—the client, the counselor, or both?