Working with Famiilies

I thought the lecture on Thursday was really interesting, when we talked about all of the different responses that people often have when dealing with others' family problems. In my opinion, I would say that reassurance, personal experience, and advice-giving would be the most common. I know that in class we talked about how advice-giving can be rude, but i think that if the person honestly has the others' best interest in mind, it's a good route to take. I think that giving advice combined with a personal experience, and reassurance would be the best way to go. Because you are giving the person advice, while backing it up with a story, followed by the reassurance that no matter what they do everything will end up working out for the best. That's what I would do anyways! I think the mean way to go would be the judgemental response. I think that people don't really have any place to be judgemental when they probably have problems in their families as well. No one single family is perfect, and I think if people got off their high horses and realized that, there wouldn't even be a judgemental response to problems.