‘Responsibility’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist, Page 4

Q: I’ll get right to the point about my concern. My husband and I have taken in a nephew from his side of the family who will be turning 11 in September. He has been with us for 9 months. His mother is in prison, and his father was killed when he was 5. He [...]

Q: I am in my 20s, have just graduated from university and am searching for a job. Unfortunately, the current economic situation has made it difficult to find a job quickly, so I live with and depend on my mother financially.
I don’t know how to cope with my mother, whose behaviour is out of [...]

Q: My 33-year-old son has abused both alcohol and drugs over the years and has been in and out of jail several times for reasons like DUIs, violation of probation, “borrowing” a friend’s car, etc. He has never managed to hold a job for any length of time, and he has burned just about every [...]

Q: A very bad situation exists at my job. There is a serial bully there who has two accomplices, and they rule the department I work in by manipulation, intimidation, harassment, and deceit. Confronting any one of them inevitably brings retribution from the other two. Management does nothing about these folks, and this inaction only [...]

Q: I’m an 18-year-old female, and I’ve been in a serious relationship with my boyfriend who is 20 for almost two years now. We’re very happy and deeply in love.
The problem is that I’m going to be going out of town to school quite a distance from here, and my boyfriend wants to spend more [...]