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Contribution and Boundaries — Practice worksheet

Map what you offer, what you receive, and what you need to decline in one community role.

15 minutes · Worksheet · Adults; supported use as appropriate

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Fictional example: Morgan organizes every gathering and feels depleted.

Use an ordinary or fictional example, with a clinician when appropriate. Community feeling includes limits and fair distribution of effort.

1. Choose a workable example

Use the fictional example below or an ordinary situation of your choosing. Keep identifying details out of shared copies.

2. Try the practice

Map what you offer, what you receive, and what you need to decline in one community role.

3. Compare possibilities

Generate at least two interpretations or options. Mark what you know, what you are guessing, and what remains outside your control.

4. Decide together

Which boundary could make participation more sustainable? Choose one small action, a support request, or no action. Review the fit with your clinician when relevant.

Prompts for this resource

  1. My chosen or fictional situation, and what I know about it:
  2. My response to the practice task above:
  3. Which boundary could make participation more sustainable?
  4. An optional next step, support, adaptation, or reason to stop:

Conceptual background

Alfred Adler: Theory and Application — Adler Graduate School

Background on the approach only. Original exercises and wording are by More Than Therapy with AI assistance; the source does not validate or endorse these materials.

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