Purpose 🎯

Help clients recognize personal strengths, past successes, and evidence that challenges can be overcome.

Let’s Talk About It 🗣️

Create a timeline of meaningful moments, accomplishments, and periods of resilience.

Explore:

• What challenges have you survived?
• What qualities helped you through difficult times?
• What strengths do others see in you?

If the Conversation Gets Stuck 💡

• What would someone who cares about you say you have accomplished?
• Is depression minimizing your strengths?
• What evidence challenges the belief that you cannot cope?

Telehealth / Whiteboard Version ⚖️

Create a digital timeline with important moments, skills learned, and strengths demonstrated.

Why This Works 🌱

This activity challenges negative self-beliefs and helps clients develop a more balanced self-perception.

Clinical Pearl 🧠

Depression often filters memories toward failure and loss. Help clients intentionally retrieve evidence of competence and resilience.

Documentation Language 📝

Therapist utilized strengths-based cognitive intervention to identify client accomplishments, resilience factors, and alternative perspectives related to self-worth.

Clinical Focus: Strengths-Based Intervention, Self-Worth, Resilience Building