Determining

 Responsibilities

A Device for Deciding Individual Responsibility

 DIRECTIONS:  Read the questions before you begin writing your answers on a separate piece of paper.  Both parents (if possible) need to work together.  Bring your work to our next session.  Do NOT discuss this with your adolescent.

  1.  Do you think your family member in treatment needs to take on more responsibility around the house?

 2.  Will your son/daughter use an automobile?  If yes:

    a.  Who is responsible for paying for gas?

    b.  Who is responsible for making the car payment?

    c.  Who is responsible for making the insurance payments?

    d.  Who will maintain the up-keep of the car?

        (washing & waxing, oil change, new tires, tune-up, etc.)

 3.  Will your son/daughter be responsible for household chores?

    a.  Who will clean your son/daughter's room? (Make the bed, pick-up and keep orderly, dust, vacuum, etc..)

    b.  Who will be responsible for doing your son/daughter's laundry?

    c.  Who will be responsible for:  cooking; washing dishes; sweeping floors; taking out the trash; mopping; setting the table; cleaning the table; etc.

    d.  Who will take responsibility for cleaning other areas of the house:  living room; halls; bathrooms; other bedrooms; den; garage; etc..

 4.  Who will be responsible for yard work?

    a.  Who will mow the grass?

    b.  Who will rake the leaves?

    c.  Who will trim the hedges?

    d.  Who will work in the garden?, etc.

 5.  Who will be responsible for providing your son/daughter money and paying his/her expenses?

    a.  Will your son/daughter work?

    b.  If so, how many hours a week and under what conditions?

    c.  Who will pay for the following:  food; rent; telephone; school lunches; dates & entertainment; clothes; school (tuition, books, fees, etc?)