The FAMILI Exercise is a comprehensive inventory of feelings, attitudes, messages, impressions, and lessons learned during early childhood. Your therapist may ask you to use this tool to help identify influences from your family of origin that are impacting your thinking and behavior today.
This document is a 23-page PDF that you will need to print so that you can write out your responses. It will take 12 pieces of paper if you print double-sided. If you don’t have the ability to download and print a file, please let your therapist know so they can provide this tool in another way.
NO PRINTER?
If your therapist has assigned you this handout and you don't have the ability to print it, we recommend the following. Download this file to your computer. Once you have it, open https://www.docfly.com on your computer. This is a free PDF editor you can use in your web browser. Drag-and-drop your handout file into this website and fill it out. When you're done save it and download the filled-out version to your computer. You can then email the completed handout to your therapist.
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Downloading this PDF Resource indicates your agreement to this license: These PDF resources - including Client Handouts and Therapist Guides - are available free of charge to registered users, and we're glad to share them widely. You are welcome to use, print, and distribute these materials for personal, clinical, or family use, provided that appropriate credit is given to the original source. Therapists may use these guides freely within their own practice - with individual clients, as session supplements, or as take-home resources. Clients are welcome to share handouts with family members who are part of their support and healing journey. The one thing we ask is that these materials remain free: please do not sell them, charge for access to them, incorporate them into commercial products, or adapt them into derivative works without permission. If you are unsure whether your intended use falls within these terms, feel free to reach out - we want to find a way to say yes wherever we can.