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Therapy role-play · SFBT · PM+
These are short, structured approaches for schools, communities and primary care. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy starts from what is already working, however little. WHO’s Problem Management Plus gives people practical tools for stress and problems after adversity.
Why this therapy
Sometimes there is no time for a long therapy and the person needs practical help this week. Brief approaches work from strengths, clear goals and simple tools, and several were designed to be delivered by trained helpers in schools, communities and primary care. The discipline is in not solving the problem for the client, and in choosing a problem small enough to be solved.
Each protocol follows its published treatment model, and so does your feedback.
Simulated clients are a training aid. They do not replace supervised work with real clients.
Each one is reviewed in your debrief, with one concrete thing to try next time.
Use 0 to 10 scales to track progress and find the next step. Ask what puts the client at a four, not why they are not at a ten.
Find the times the problem is smaller or absent. When the client mentions a better day in passing, stop and explore it.
Teach slow breathing, and practise it together before the session ends rather than only explaining it.
Walk through structured problem solving, on a problem the client chose and can actually influence.
Help the client restart the small activities that lift mood (behavioural activation), one at a time.
Identify the people and places the client can lean on, and plan one step towards them that is acceptable in their world.
Ask what will be different when the problem is solved, in the client’s own words, and keep asking until the answer is concrete enough to notice.
The same client carries across modes. Start where you feel comfortable, then stretch.
Each client comes with a history, a presentation and measures. Read the referral as you would on placement, then begin.
The client responds to how you work. Make your mistakes here, where they cost nothing; hints come only if you ask for them.
A clear debrief on the core skills of your model (the CTS-R for CBT). Then take any one skill into a focused drill and work on it until it holds.
Problem Management Plus: a five-session WHO programme, designed for trained helpers to deliver to adults in distress after adversity.
A question such as “On a scale of 0 to 10, where are you today?” Then you explore what puts the client at that number, and what one point higher would look like.
People at immediate risk of suicide, or with a severe mental disorder, need specialist care, and PM+ screens them out. You practise spotting the moment a short, strengths-based approach is not enough, and referring on. Asking the miracle question of someone who is acutely hopeless, before you have asked about risk, is one of those moments.
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