Hope-Based Problem MitigatioN (HBPM)

Hope-Based Problem MitigatioN (HBPM) Hope-Based Problem MitigatioN (HBPM) Hope-Based Problem MitigatioN (HBPM)

Hope-Based Problem MitigatioN (HBPM)

Hope-Based Problem MitigatioN (HBPM) Hope-Based Problem MitigatioN (HBPM) Hope-Based Problem MitigatioN (HBPM)
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  • About
  • HOH Basics
  • HOH Therapeutic Approach
    • 1 Explore Turning Points
    • 2 Conduct a Hope Audit
    • 3 Restructure Needs
    • 4 Empower Clients
  • Resources
    • Therapists
    • Career Counselors
    • Teachers & Educators
    • Mentors
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    • Home
    • About
    • HOH Basics
    • HOH Therapeutic Approach
      • 1 Explore Turning Points
      • 2 Conduct a Hope Audit
      • 3 Restructure Needs
      • 4 Empower Clients
    • Resources
      • Therapists
      • Career Counselors
      • Teachers & Educators
      • Mentors
    • Services
  • Home
  • About
  • HOH Basics
  • HOH Therapeutic Approach
    • 1 Explore Turning Points
    • 2 Conduct a Hope Audit
    • 3 Restructure Needs
    • 4 Empower Clients
  • Resources
    • Therapists
    • Career Counselors
    • Teachers & Educators
    • Mentors
  • Services

Hierarchy of Hope Therapy for Mental Wellness

Hierarchy of Hope Therapy for Mental Wellness Hierarchy of Hope Therapy for Mental Wellness Hierarchy of Hope Therapy for Mental Wellness

Hope-Based Applications

Counselors & Therapists

Counselors & Therapists

Counselors & Therapists

Research shows that hope can be used in individual and group therapy to help clients improve their mental health and overall well-being. Hope is a therapeutic framework and REPRODUCIBLE resources for successfully transcending problems, mitigating their impact, and eventually eliminating them altogether. Hope can be developed to reduce dep

Research shows that hope can be used in individual and group therapy to help clients improve their mental health and overall well-being. Hope is a therapeutic framework and REPRODUCIBLE resources for successfully transcending problems, mitigating their impact, and eventually eliminating them altogether. Hope can be developed to reduce depression, anxiety, stress, clients who feel stuck, and much more.  


Teachers & Educators

Counselors & Therapists

Counselors & Therapists

Our research with school districts in China and Romania proves that hope can be a powerful influence and predictor of academic and career success. Hope plays a critical role in student success, especially for marginalized populations. Hope can be easily integrated into the educational curriculum and help students achieve higher levels of academic achievement. Let us show you how!

Career Counselors

Counselors & Therapists

Career Counselors

 The Hierarchy of Hope can be used in conjunction with traditional career and job search strategies. Career issues can be traumatic and stressful. We are committed to developing and providing hope-related career resources to help clients transcend their situations. Whether clients are experiencing downsizing, termination, relocation, care

 The Hierarchy of Hope can be used in conjunction with traditional career and job search strategies. Career issues can be traumatic and stressful. We are committed to developing and providing hope-related career resources to help clients transcend their situations. Whether clients are experiencing downsizing, termination, relocation, career advancement, release from incarceration, or many other career issues, we can help!  

Worldwide Mentors

Counselors & Therapists

Career Counselors

Hope provides all people who interact with young people with the tools to offer hope, influence, instruction, guidance, or direction. Mentors play a significant role in the personal and professional growth of young people. We provide mentors with a step-by-step program of activities that can be integrated into the mentor-mentee relationsh

Hope provides all people who interact with young people with the tools to offer hope, influence, instruction, guidance, or direction. Mentors play a significant role in the personal and professional growth of young people. We provide mentors with a step-by-step program of activities that can be integrated into the mentor-mentee relationship. If you work with inexperienced people, we can show you how to help them move from stuck to hopeful. 

HBPM in a Nutshell

The Mission

Hope-Based Problem Mitigation (HBPM) Institute aims to equip therapists, teachers, and other helping professionals with a unique Positive Psychology approach called The Hierarchy of Hope. We are dedicated to ensuring that Hierarchy of Hope Training is available to all helping professionals who want to help clients and students harness the healing power of hope to transcend mental health service problems, career issues, and blocks to learning.  

HBPM Approach

Micro-traumas have increased in our lives. Hope is needed now more than ever before. Carl Jung was the first to suggest that life’s most significant problems, crises, and difficulties cannot be solved or fixed but only outgrown or transcended. Our therapeutic approaches offer a Positive Psychology therapeutic framework, clinical process, and resources to help clients generate hope, focus on reaching their full potential, and overcome their problems. 

Our Team

Our team consists of experienced mental health service therapists with diverse therapeutic backgrounds, interested in Positive Psychology, Hope, and transcendence. We are passionate about helping your clients and students succeed, and we are committed to delivering exceptional service through professional resources, reproducible workbooks, assessments, and training related to the Hierarchy of Hope.

"Hope is a passion for the possible." ~ Søren Kierkegaard

5 Core Hope-Building Skills to Develop Mental Wellness

We believe a lack of hope is at the core of many mental health issues.  


Contact us for Positive Psychology Resources, Training, or More Mental Health Service Information! Scallon and Liptak identified the following 5 Core Hope Skills in their Bookboon book, Cognitive Flexibility.

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Transcendent Purpose & Meaning

Clients are taught to think optimistically and find "something" that allows them to transcend needs, problems, negative emotions, and stressors. Based on the Positive Psychology of creating and uncovering hope through meaning and finding purpose in life.

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Engaging in the Flow of Life

Clients identify and develop their areas of excellence, and learn to enter “flow” states by engaging in activities they are passionate about and serving the world. Positive Psychology tells people how to use their skills and talents to reach their fullest potential and build a bright future.

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Celebrating and Building on Accomplishments

Clients feel a sense of accomplishment upon which they can build. Explore sources of hope and positive self-esteem achieved through positive psychology. Accomplishment is achieved by reflecting on past achievements and exploring options and possibilities for future success.

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Forming Collaborative & Supportive Relationships

Clients build healthy, hopeful, positive relationships with supportive and caring others, including friends, supervisors, co-workers, and family members. Relationships focus on collaboration, networking, and building relationships that can positively affect clients’ dreams and goals. Communication skills are taught.

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Feeling Empowered Through Increased Control

Clients create a persevering mindset by refusing to let anything interfere with achieving their goals. They focus on controlling what they can control, creating an empowered mindset, and making proactive changes to be more hopeful and outgrow their problems. Provide mental health service through positive psychology. 

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Help Your Clients Generate Hope to Transform Their Problems

Purchase All 5 Reproducible Workbooks!

REPRODUCIBLE Positive Psychology - The Hope Series for Depression


Psychology research shows that the best treatment for depression is hope:

● Have you been looking for the right tools to help your clients who are experiencing depression?

● Want to step away from the negative treatment of depression by trying to help “fix” the person?

● Would a Positive Psychology approach to depression and other mental health issues be more compassionate?

● Are you searching for a method to guide people to attain greater happiness, resilience, and optimism?

● Have you tried future-oriented approaches that help people create meaning?


This reproducible workbook series, Positive Psychology: The Hope Series, is an innovative mental health approach that empowers professionals to guide participants as they overcome depression to emerge stronger, happier, more resilient, and more hopeful. Based on the pioneering work of Drs. Scallon and Liptak, this five-workbook series will help your clients generate hope and create a new purpose. Help participants overcome depression with The Hope Series, where hope becomes a powerful force for positive change, resilience, enhanced mental health, and well-being.


People with depression often experience a reduced capacity for hope, and a lack of hope is frequently a significant symptom of depression. Therefore, therapists must teach their clients skills so that they can become more hopeful. Hope skills include becoming future-oriented by creating meaning in life, developing healthy relationships, gaining control, accomplishing goals, and engaging in your life. 


To purchase the entire series, go to  Positive Psychology - The Hope Series 

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Frequently Asked Questions

Please reach John Liptak at jjliptak1@verizon.net if you cannot find an answer to your question.

Mental wellness rather than mental illness! 

Mental wellness is a state of well-being where an individual experiences positive emotions, a sense of purpose, and the ability to cope with life's challenges. It's more than just the absence of mental illness; it encompasses emotional, social, and psychological well-being. Mental wellness involves feeling up to daily challenges, experiencing joy, and having the resources to handle difficult situations.  While closely related, mental health and mental wellness are distinct concepts. Mental health refers to the overall state of your psychological and emotional well-being, while mental wellness is a more active and positive state of well-being that can be actively cultivated. Mental health is more about the presence or absence of mental illness, whereas mental wellness is about thriving and flourishing.  



To help people who are sad, anxious, and stressed, psychologists have gained a better understanding of well-being and have developed effective treatments for many psychological problems. The problem with this approach is that it primarily focuses on the negative aspects of health and well-being. This approach attempts to “cure” or “fix” people rather than focusing on enhancing the positives in life. On the other hand, positive psychology practitioners focus on helping people discover and explore their strengths, potentials, and talents to engender hope and joy and promote positive functioning. This therapeutic approach, Scallon & Liptak's Hierarchy of Hope, is centered on the principles of three models promoting positive functioning: Carl Jung’s Model of Psychological Growth, Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Model, and the field of Positive Psychology.



Hierarchy of Hope helps clients develop skills in finding meaning and a transcendent purpose, engaging in the flow of life, celebrating and building on accomplishments, developing collaborative relationships, and taking control and persevering despite obstacles.  



The Hierarchy of Hope (HOH) is a model for helping you use cognitive flexibility to create a new purpose in your life after you experience significant changes. These changes are pivotal events or turning points. When your life moves in a new direction, it may be due to external, global events or internal changes you actively make. The Hierarchy of Hope demonstrates how to use cognitive flexibility to identify ways to use your turning points as catalysts to create new meaning in your life while successfully meeting your needs. The HOH flips Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs order and allows clients to focus on the top of Maslow’s original hierarchy with self-actualization and meaning.  


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