Enhancing Hope 🌞🌈

Accentuating Hope ✨

🌻 Hope Therapy

Phase I

Hope bonding🌹
Formation of a sound therapeutic alliance which grounds the client in a hopeful therapeutic context

Hope Finding🌞

Phase II

Hope finding🌷
Strengthen clients' expectations that therapist can and will help them.

Hope Bonding ⛅️

Phase III

Hope Enhancing 🌈

Phase IV

Hope Reminding☀️

Strategies

Hope reflects individuals' perception of
their capacity to

🐼 Clearly conceptualise
goals

🐨 Develop the specific strategies to reach those goals (pathways thinking)

🐻 Initiate and sustain the motivationusing these strategies (agency thinking)

Hope enhancing🌻
Enlist clients in tasks designed to increase agency & pathway thinking

Hope reminding🌺
Effortful daily use of hopeful cognitions

(both agency & pathway thinking are necessary but not sufficient in themselves to sustain successful goal pursuit) #

Individuals can
be hopeful about achieving

Goals in general (ie. a trait)

Goals in a certain life arena
(ie. domain-specific)

One goal in particular
(ie. goal-specific)

HOPE SCALE💨
Formal hope assessment carried out here

NARRATIVE
APPROACHES
(capture)
🌺

  1. How did the client generate goals
  1. What was the motivation?
  1. How attainable or realistic were the goals ?
  1. How were the goals perceived ?
  1. What was the client's mood/attitude during the process ?
  1. How was movement towards goals initiated ?
  1. What were the biggest barriers toward reaching the goals?
  1. How was motivation maintained ?
  1. How were the barriers overcome, what steps taken ?
  1. What emotions did these barriers elicit ?
  1. How does the client feel about the outcome ?
  1. If client to attempt same goal again, do what differently ?
  1. Were the goals attained ?
  1. Can client recast experience in more hopeful terms ?

HOPE
PROFILING
(informal strategy)💥

Client writes (or tapes) brief stories about past and current goal pursuits to uncover the hope that is part of his psychological makeup.

Review of these stories in the therapeutic context

helps clients realise they have the resources necessary to make positive changes

clients learn the language of hope by

identifying

goal thoughts

pathway thinking

agency sources

Working alliance - collaboration between
the therapist and
client based on

🌼 agreement on goals (goal)

includes

🌸 agreement on tasks of counselling
(pathways)

🌺 development of a personal attachment bond
(agency)

  1. Respectfully negotiating flexible therapeutic goals (goals)
  1. Generating numerous and varied pathways to goal attainment (pathways)
  1. Translating the sense of connectedness between therapist and client into the mental energy necessary to sustain pursuit towards therapeutic goals. (agency)

NOTE : Therapist becomes a 👥 positive role model in a supportive environment

Hopeful
familial
relationship
(Informal
Strategy)

💅 serves as hope-enhancing agents (Client-Others)

👻 Clients could benefit from evaluating their relationships and determining which generate mental energy that facilitates coping, and which would drain this energy.

👶 Therapists could encourage the development of new relationships that increase the hope in an individual's life

Focuses on goal setting and increasing the production of pathways and agency through

🍏 actual work on reasonable goals

Informal
Strategy

🍎 discussion on the process

🍐 weekly homework assignments

I. Administration of Hope Scale🌖

II. Learning about Hope🌗
discuss hope scale with client

III. Structuring Hope for the Client🌘
Client to create a list of important life components, determine which areas most important, and amount of satisfaction in each life area.

IV. Creating Positive and Specific Goals🌓
client to create multiple pathways for each goal and identify agency thoughts for each goal

V. Practice Makes Perfect🌔
Clients to visualize and verbalize the steps to reach the goals. With this practice, both client-therapist can collaborate on the most effective pathways and agency behind the goals.

VI. Checking In🌚
Clients incorporate these goals, pathway and agency into their lives and report back to the therapist on the process of goal attainment. Adjust any disparities.

Clinical 👨‍⚕️🏥Effectiveness

Formal
Strategy

Self-monitoring Techniques
Identify goal thoughts / barrier thoughts

Reviewing a favourite hope narrative

Constructing and completing a brief automatic thought record that refines goals & confronts barrier thoughts

Reviewing the personal hope statement

Bonding with a hopeful person and meeting to discuss current goals and barriers

Informal Strategy

Develop & examine hope booster sessions (brief visit or exchange over telephone)

Identify effective hope -reminding procedures developed by clients

Meta-analysis
shows only modest
evidence of the ability of hope enhancement strategies to increase hopefulness or life satisfaction in clinical & community settings.😬👎

Further research is required to identify more effective techniques in applied settings
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