HOH Approach

Helping People Move From Mental Illness to Mental Wellness

The HOH approach 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.

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.

My research on the science of hope found that when people are exposed to activities related to the two assessment stages and three 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.

Two Stages in the process include:

Stage I. Assessment Stage:

The Assessment Stage, conducted before therapy begins, includes three potential steps, as outlined in the book Cognitive Flexibility* by Scallon and Liptak. Therapists can choose to use one or all three assessment formats.

Explore Client Pivot Points
Conduct a Hope Audit
Assess Client Hope Levels

*Scallon, M., & Liptak, J. (2021). Cognitive Flexibility. Bookboon. https://bookboon.com/en/cognitive-flexibility-ebook

Stage 2. Steps in Applying the Hierarchy of Hope:

The development of the Hierarchy of Hope model formally began in 2016 with the publication of a book by Ester Leutenberg and John Liptak, titled The Journey to Transcendence**. The book was part of a Positive Psychology Series, demonstrating ways to transcend problems for increased hope, health, and happiness. In this book, we created the HOPE SCALE, which identifies and measures three steps in the problem mitigation process: Optimistic Attitude (OA), Goal Orientation (GO), and Positive Outcomes (PO).

The steps in the Hierarchy of Hope model are based on this book.

Three steps comprise the therapeutic process to incorporate and help clients build the five hope skills to transcend situations, mitigate problems, and move beyond their issues:

Step #1: Trigger Hope by Helping Clients Develop an Optimistic Attitude

Step #2: Build Hope into a Goal-Oriented, Focused, Empowered Mindset

Step #3: Nurture Hope by Helping Clients Persevere Despite Obstacles

**Leutenberg, E.R.A., & Liptak, J.J. (2016). The journey to transcendence teen workbook. Bohemia, NY: Bureau for At-Risk Youth.

To Read More About the HOH Approach, please go to www.hopebasedproblemmitigation.com

Positive Psychology for Eliminating Depression & Trauma

The Hope Series of Positive Psychology

REPRODUCIBLE Positive Psychology - The Hope Series for Depression

● 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.

Psychology research shows that the best treatment for depression is hope. This research suggests there is an inverse relationship between the two concepts:

● Hope is the belief in a positive, motivated future and the desire to persevere and strive toward that future.

● On the other hand, depression consists of feelings of sadness, helplessness, and hopelessness about the future. To treat depression, we help individuals become more hopeful.

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 a sense of control, accomplishing goals, and engaging in your life.

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

Dr. John J. Liptak
Resources for Helping Professionals

Training, Curricula, Reproducible Workbooks, Assessments, & Books

HOH Approach

Positive Psychology for Eliminating Depression & Trauma

The Hope Series of Positive Psychology

Dr. John J. LiptakResources for Helping Professionals

Training, Curricula, Reproducible Workbooks, Assessments, & Books

HOH Approach

Positive Psychology for Eliminating Depression & Trauma

The Hope Series of Positive Psychology

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Dr. John J. Liptak
Resources for Helping Professionals