When significant others in your personal life are distressed or in crisis, how have you typically responded? Would you characterize your responses more as attempts to provide reassurance or...

When significant others in your personal life are distressed or in crisis, how have you typically responded? Would you characterize your responses more as attempts to provide reassurance or problem-solving, or as offering validation and empathic understanding? Looking back, do you think your response was helpful? In parallel, recall a signi‑cant crisis in your own life that occurred in recent years. Looking back, what kinds of responses from others were helpful to you, and which were not? What might validation or empathic understanding have offered you during that stressful time?