Instructors, group leaders and therapists use the Self-Discovery Tapestry:

• Teach life-span development, gerantology, and adaptation.
  
  
• As a colorful life review document.
  
  
• As an assessment tool early in client/therapist relationship.
  
  
• To provide clients with tangible evidence of the continuous elements as well as transitional events in their lives, and a record of their future goals and values.
  
  
• As a place to briefly record work histories, interests and hobbies.
  
  
• As a tool used with groups to illustrate life’s shared areas of continuity within the domains of interpersonal relationships, education and work histories, personal and family health, disposition, and financial issues.
  

Included in the kit, the LEADER’S GUIDE provides Useful strategies Case studies Hints for use, adapting the instrument, and interpretation History and life-span theoretical basis for the development of the instrument Included in the kit, the CLIENT’S GUIDE provides Directions for folding the page for ease in use Thoughtful questions that encourage analysis, affirmation, and discussion.

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