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创造性的解决方案

Treatment Approaches,

遇到任何大小问题时，尝试用一下的提问来转换角度和寻求更有创意的解决方案。

1．问题是什么？

2．你过去处理解决类似的问题做过什么？

3．还有什么是你没尝试过的？

4．如果你关心的人面对类似的问题，你会给予什么劝告／建议？

5．想象你敬重或欣赏的人。他们会做什么？

6．你认为你尊敬的人会给你什么劝告／建议？

7．你可以向谁寻求帮助？

8．列出你可以用来应对的其它资源。

9．一个具有创造性的人会作什么？

10．一个明智的人会作什么？

11．一个勇敢的人会作什么？

12．最容易做的是什么？

13．最有效的解决方案是什么？什么是理想的解决方案？

14．总体上，你认为最实际的或最好的解决方案会是什么？

15．最开始的第一步是什么？

记得：处理情绪，有时也是解决事情的方法之一，因为有些事我们无法直接解决，但我们可以学习处理自己的情绪，而不是被动地等待事情过去或陷入痛苦中…

How do I get more clients for my practice?

Basic & General, Treatment Approaches

Here is a list of results brainstormed by a group of 25 students in China. They were trying to find out as many solutions possible to get more clients for their practice (psychotherapy). It is part of the Problem Solving Therapy Exercise (step 2). It is a process of getting as many solutions as possible without assessing how good or practical they are (quantity > quality).

  • Set up personal website
  • Use of social media like facebook, instagram, wechat
  • Share of information online
  • Giving talk in hospital, schools
  • Advertisement
  • Organising workshop
  • Collaborate with government organisation
  • Collaborate with corporates, company
  • Collaborate with schools
  • Collaborate with celebrities
  • Collaborate with hospitals
  • Collaborate with other private practices
  • Collaborate with the community groups or organisations
  • Collaborate with specialist clinics (e.g. post cancer treatment, irritable bowel syndrome, skin problems)
  • Leaflet
  • Business card
  • Summer camp
  • Use of search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, Baidu
  • Radio station (share of information, ads)
  • Words of mouth
  • Talk for parents (through schools)
  • Group experiential workshop in the schools
  • Charity events
  • Visiting schools, giving talks to teachers, managements, students, parents
  • Rise your fee per session (to increase your income…)
  • Treating celebrities and make them your spokeperson
  • Running workshop series
  • Set up association
  • Make short videos
  • Personal development, learn more approaches
  • Ads on bus, bus stop
  • Set up good name for your business/practice
  • More flexibility, provide online sessions
  • Raise fund from corporates
  • Be very specialised in certain areas
  • Be interviewed in radio or tv programmes
  • Stage hypnosis or demonstration
  • Target students, teenagers, parents
  • Target women general wellbeing
  • Target insomnia
  • Wellbeing / Healthcare centre
  • Package, e.g. free one session every 5 sessions
  • Pre-wedding package (weight loss, smoking cessation, general confidence)
  • Funerals
  • Target bad habits
  • Target pregnancy (e.g. post-partum anxiety/depression, weight loss, general wellbeing)
  • Therapy during a day-out together

What else can you come up with?

Creative Problem Solving

Treatment Approaches

Here are some questions to help finding creative solutions of any problem you have. (N.B. provided that it’s a problem that can be solved, not something not within your control)

Really sit down and take time to consider these…

  • What’s the problem?
  • What have you done in the past to cope with similar problems?
  • What haven’t you tried?
  • What would you advise someone you care about to do in similar situation?
  • Think of someone you respect or admire. What would they do?
  • What do you think people you respect would advise you to do?
  • Who could you approach for help?
  • List all the other resources you can draw upon to cope?
  • What would a creative person do?
  • What would a wise person do?
  • What would a courageous person do?
  • What would be the easiest thing to do?
  • What would be the most effective solution possible? What’s the ideal solution?
  • Overall, what do you think the best or most realistic solution would be?
  • What would be the first step?