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Welcome to the Hierarchy of Hope Approach
Hierarchy of Hope is a structured counseling format that enables educators, mentors, and mental health professionals to help individuals overcome their problems while developing happiness, hope, mental wellness, positivity, resilience, goal orientation, and perseverance. HOH focuses on positive, proactive, wellness-based activities that promote hope, healing, and mental wellness. HOH helps shift the client's focus to a more positive and empowering approach by promoting meaning, accomplishment, engagement, relationships, and control, rather than just avoiding or coping with mental illness.
Our research on the science of hope found that when people are exposed to activities related to the HOH steps, they experience statistically significantly higher levels of hope, resilience, and happiness, and can develop greater levels of mental wellness. By applying these easy-to-apply and straightforward methods and techniques, your clients can transcend their problems, experience problem mitigation, and move quickly from hopeless to hopeful.
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Features of the HOH Approach
Harnessing the Healing Power of Hope to Outgrow Mental Health Problems
Some features of the Hierarchy of Hope Approach include:
- HOH is an evidence-based and clinically supported approach grounded in positive psychology and Hierarchy of Hope research. Because the approach has been supported by research and used in practical clinical settings, clinicians can be confident that they are using a theoretically sound model with empirically supported interventions. You can integrate the workbooks alongside traditional therapies, knowing that the content aligns with best practices for treatment.
- HOH is a positive, strengths-based approach focusing less on symptom deficits and more on client motivation and strengths. It provides tools to identify and build on personal strengths, values, and successes. This positive psychology framework enhances the therapeutic alliance and improves client engagement, as individuals feel understood and empowered rather than “fixed.”
- HOH is a future-oriented framework that builds a highly hopeful mindset. Clients learn to replace catastrophic or negative thought patterns with a future-focused, hope-based perspective. By concentrating on goals and possibilities ahead, they gain a sense of direction and purpose, which counteracts the despair of helplessness and depression. This future orientation helps to instill optimism that life can improve.
HOH Core Principles
1: Positive Psychology is Key
While traditional branches of psychology have focused on mental illness and psychopathology, positive psychology takes a different approach. Rather than asking “what’s wrong with people,” positive psychology asks, “What’s right with people?” Positive psychology focuses on helping people build a life filled with meaning, hope, and resilience. It is about helping people meet their needs to move from surviving to flourishing. Positive psychology asks:
- How can people live a good life?
- How can people improve their lives?
- How can people find joy in their lives?
- How can people capitalize on their strengths rather than trying to “fix” their weaknesses?
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.
2: Hope Begins with a Future-Oriented Mindset
People can learn to replace catastrophic or negative thought patterns with a future-focused, hope-based perspective. By concentrating on goals and possibilities in the near and far future, they gain a sense of direction and purpose, which counteracts the despair of the past and present. A “stay in the present” orientation can prolong feelings of sadness. This future orientation helps to instill optimism, hope, and joy that life can improve.
3: Hope-Skills Building Leads to a Transcendent Attitude
You’ve probably heard people say, “Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude or how high you can go.” What exactly does it mean? Your attitude is the avenue by which you experience happiness, cultivate hope, and achieve your dreams. You determine the quality of your attitude by how you respond to an event. It would help to remember that you could not sustain a positive attitude through any quick-fix motivational technique. You should keep the following facts in mind as you begin to connect your actions with a good attitude:
- You form an attitude based on the conscious growth choices you make.
- Your key to maintaining a healthy and hopeful attitude is based on how many happy and pleasurable growth experiences you have.
- You have control over your attitude. You determine your attitude through the actions and behaviors in which you engage.
- You can take control of the growth-based power of your attitude to perform at your best and maximize your happiness and fulfillment.
- Your attitude represents how you see and respond to events, situations, people, and yourself.
- You are the architect of joy in your life. You decide the positivity of the events in your life. You decide if your attitude is positive or negative.
- Your attitude consists of your tendencies to behave in a particular way in certain situations. Please remember that hope, peace, and happiness are parts of your attitude.