This content introduces a "choose-your-own-adventure" therapy exercise designed to help therapists practice making impactful opening decisions that guide client conversations toward deeper exploration of core issues.
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hi everyone my name is dr. Joseph hammer
and this is the second
choose-your-own-adventure therapy
exercise in the first exercise that you
may have seen previously we focused on
how individual decisions at every point
in the conversation can make a
difference in whether the conversation
in therapy goes into productive and
deeper or less productive and more
shallow direction in this
choose-your-own-adventure the focus is
slightly different when the format is
slightly different then it will be
shorter in this situation we're looking
at how your opening decision as a
therapist impacts where the conversation
goes so in this situation across from
you you will see a client to your
meeting with for a first session and
they will start off by telling you a
general overview of what's going on for
them and they'll mention several things
that are going wrong in their life that
aren't feeling good and you'll have a
choice one of three choices about what
you want to ask about and so your task
is to think about what feels like the
most powerful or more important piece of
their issue and to use the intervention
to ask about that topic that seems most
important to them and then you'll see
what will happen so depending on which
scenario you pick you will then see a
dialogue between the therapist and the
client to see how that ensuing
conversation might play out and after
you've picked a path and you see what happens
happens
you can choose to possibly check out the
other paths to see what sort of
conversation would have flowed from that
so there are three paths and you can
switch between them if you want to see
what else might have happened if you
asked about other things so it's a
shorter exercise and
this is about choosing what you think
will lead to the deepest and the most
core part of their issue and again this
is just based on my professional opinion
and teaching people to do psychotherapy
there's always room for error and
differing opinions about what makes for
a good intervention or asking about a
good topic but I hope that it helps your
brain think about doing therapy and it's
thought-provoking and welcome your
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