DEVELOPMENTAL CRISIS IN EARLY ADULTHOOD: A ...
DEVELOPMENTAL CRISIS IN EARLY ADULTHOOD: A ...
DEVELOPMENTAL CRISIS IN EARLY ADULTHOOD: A ...
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• Why do you think you got into the relationship?<br />
• How do you think your partner would have described you?<br />
SELF<br />
• Do you think you were being “true to yourself”?<br />
• Do you think you knew yourself well at this point?<br />
• Was there any aspect of your life that felt false?<br />
• What were the values you lived your life by at the time?<br />
• What your goals and aspirations?<br />
• What were your priorities?<br />
• How did you relax? Unwind? Holidays?<br />
• Did you feel in control of your own life? Was it you making the decisions?<br />
Mid Crisis (Separation, or peak of crisis)<br />
• Can you pinpoint the turning point in the whole story – the point where things<br />
really started to change….<br />
• Relationship: Who made the decision to separate? Why?<br />
• Work: Who made the decision to leave work? Why?<br />
• Which was made before? Did one lead into another?<br />
• What emotions did you feel at this time? (at the point of separation)<br />
• Can you relate how the emotions you experienced changed over time?<br />
• Did you blame anyone?<br />
• Did anyone help you in that condition?<br />
• What were your next steps after you…<br />
o Left work – next steps<br />
o Left the relationship – next steps<br />
o How did this affect your sense of self?<br />
• How was your self-esteem at the time?<br />
• Did you feel your sense of self changing?<br />
o Probe for assertiveness and agency issues<br />
• Did you feel any relief at the time of separation?<br />
Late Crisis – exploration / post split<br />
• If there is a period of exploration and experimentation, probe for:<br />
o Different avenues of exploration<br />
o Sense of self during experimental phase<br />
o How long it lasted for<br />
o Any therapy?<br />
• Why?<br />
o Any further study?<br />
• Why?<br />
o What new activities taken up?<br />
• Why?<br />
o Any spiritual searching?<br />
• What form – what hoping to get out of it?<br />
• What were you searching for?<br />
• Did it feel like a second adolescence?<br />
• Did you take any time out?<br />
Post-Crisis<br />
• When did the exploration come to an end? Why?<br />
• New job / vocational role?<br />
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