Purpose 🎯🏆

Increase self-confidence by helping clients recognize everyday successes.

Let’s Talk About It 🗣️

Invite the client to identify every success from the past week, no matter how small.

Examples include:

• Took medication.
• Sent an email.
• Asked for help.
• Folded laundry.
• Made a difficult phone call.

If they minimize an accomplishment, gently ask whether they would say the same thing to someone they care about.

If the Conversation Gets Stuck 💡

• What’s one thing you’re proud of this week?
• What almost didn’t happen but did?
• What’s something last year’s version of you might have struggled with?

Telehealth / Whiteboard Version 🫙

Draw a mason jar and fill it with sticky notes representing each success discussed during session.

Why This Works 🌱

Clients with ADHD often notice failures more quickly than successes. Deliberately recognizing accomplishments helps create a more balanced self-image.

Clinical Pearl 🧠

Don’t let clients dismiss “small wins.” Small wins often represent significant progress.

Documentation Language 📝

Therapist utilized strengths-based interventions to reinforce adaptive behaviors and increase awareness of recent accomplishments. Therapist challenged negative self-perceptions through identification of personal successes.

Clinical Focus: Strengths-Based Intervention, Self Esteem, Positive Reinforcement