Solution-focused therapy / SFB-A13-4
Doing More of What Helps — Session activity
Facilitate a structured practice of doing more of what helps with preparation, reflection, and an agreed closing.
30 minutes · Session guide · Mental health professionals
Fictional example: A quiet walk helped Devin once but is inaccessible during a pain flare.
Use within your training and assessment of readiness. Repeating a helpful action involves checking context and cost.
0–5 min | Agree on purpose and fit
Explain the educational scope. Ask what would be useful, check readiness and access needs, and establish choices to observe, adapt, or pass. Use an ordinary example; do not solicit trauma narratives.
5–10 min | Orient with an example
Repeating a helpful action involves checking context and cost. Fictional example: A quiet walk helped Devin once but is inaccessible during a pain flare. Ask what is observed and what remains uncertain.
10–20 min | Practice and compare
Choose a previously useful action, identify when it fits, and note when it should not be repeated. Offer quiet individual work, a supported conversation, or an observing role. Compare two possible responses without evaluating people as right or wrong.
20–25 min | Reflect on meaning
What condition makes this option useful rather than obligatory? Ask what fit, what did not fit, and how culture, power, disability access, or external conditions affect the options.
25–30 min | Integrate and close
Invite one optional next step or support request. Orient to the current setting, allow an unfinished question to remain unfinished, and agree how to revisit it. End early or adapt if activation increases.
Adaptations
For a group, use fiction and no compulsory round-robin disclosure. For remote use, allow off-camera reflection and private notes. For brief use, keep one example and one question while retaining opening and closing choices.
Prompts for this resource
- What outcome would make this practice useful?
- What condition makes this option useful rather than obligatory?
- What adaptation or follow-up is needed?
Conceptual background
What is Solution-Focused Therapy? — Solution-Focused Therapy Institute
Background on the approach only. Original exercises and wording are by More Than Therapy with AI assistance; the source does not validate or endorse these materials.