Coaching practices for Solution Focused Brief Therapy Building on What Works Under Stress

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• All day my attention goes straight to what went wrong
• It feels like this is just how I am
• Everything is genuinely awful right now and any talk of "what would better look like" feels like a slap
• In the moment my mind goes blank and the only voice in my head is “you can’t handle this”
• There’s a high-stakes thing coming

Practices that may help

1. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Building On What Works
   Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT), developed by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg, directs attention to what already works — client strengths, past successes, and desired futures — rather than to analyzing problems. Meta-analyses report small-to-moderate positive effects across a range of presenting issues, with particular strength in behavioral problems and depression in adult populations.
2. The Formula First-Session Task and Between-Session Noticing
   Assign between-session observation tasks that direct attention toward what’s already working.
   Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Building On What Works
3. Exception Finding: When Is the Problem Already Less Severe?
   Identify times when the problem was absent or less severe — these are evidence that solutions already exist.
   Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Building On What Works
4. Coping Questions
   When things seem terrible, ask how the person is managing at all — acknowledging and excavating their resilience.
   Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Building On What Works
5. Prepare coping self-talk in advance
   Script what you will say to yourself at the trigger, during the peak, and afterward — before you need it.
   Stress Inoculation Training
6. Stress Inoculation: Pre-Exposure to Prepare for Future Stress
   Deliberately practice under conditions that simulate the stress of future high-stakes performance.
   Deliberate Discomfort: Using Voluntary Challenge to Build Resilience
7. Use the prayer as a real-time triage tool in high-stress moments
   In acute stress, running the three-part sequence interrupts reactivity and restores the capacity to respond.
   The Serenity Prayer as a Practice Framework
8. TIPP: Rapid Physiological De-escalation for Intense Distress
   Use Temperature, Intense exercise, Paced breathing, and Paired muscle relaxation to bring crisis-level emotion down quickly.
   The STOP Skill: A DBT Technique for Crisis Moments
9. Map your stress response (conceptualization phase)
   Before you train coping, understand the full sequence: trigger → appraisal → body → behavior → consequence.
   Stress Inoculation Training
10. Practice the "see it, own it, use it" reappraisal
    Crum’s framework: notice the stress (see it), acknowledge why it matters (own it), and channel it (use it).
    The Stress-Is-Enhancing Mindset

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