This perspective should be within a maximum of 2 type-written pages and should address each of the following content areas: What is one issue you struggle with? What do you think is the root or cause of this issue for you? What is the patterned behavior that you use to lower your stress (associated with the issue in #1)? Do you see this patterned behavior as a weakness or strength? What was it like to address this issue in a paper? To assist the student in understanding what clients experience when asked to address issues in his or her family, area #5 should be devoted to describing what it was like to think about and analyze one's own functioning.