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Question 1: Prepare a budget for a lower class life-style for a person who is a young, single, childless adult. Research the typical amount of money a person in poverty receives each month through a minimum wage job without benefits or full-time hours. Find out the typical costs of : rent, car payment/insurance, groceries, utilities, furniture, clothes etc. Discuss how this fits with the American Dream.

Question 2: Discuss one of the assessment instruments mentioned in chapter 10. Do you think these type of instruments are really helpful? Why or why not?

Question 3: How would you counsel a student that is at risk of dropping out of school? Strategies? Discuss specifically how you would try to develop a relationship with this student?

Question 4: What would be the "touchy" values issues that would be difficult to explore with clients? For example, would helping a client deal with an unwanted pregnancy be a strain? What if the client was trying to decide if she wanted to have an abortion? Or, what would it be like if a client, said, "Do you believe in Jesus?
Do you think that Christian career counseling has advantages over other counseling techniques? Why or why not?

Question 5: Discuss the interaction between a counselor and a client who asks," What is career counseling?" Describe the process.

Question 6: Which of the techniques in Chapter 9 excite you as something you might use with clients. Why?