When It Is Used
Use it when avoidance or control strategies need to be examined collaboratively for their workability over time.
Creative Hopelessness / Workability Review
Creative Hopelessness / Workability Review is a practitioner-guided ACT formulation tool for practitioners and clients. It helps them examine control or avoidance strategies, short-term payoffs, longer-term costs, and workability in relation to valued living.
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Tool guide
Learn more about this tool
Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.
What It Captures
The review captures strategies, short-term payoffs, longer-term costs, valued-living relation, optional alternative response notes, and separate practitioner observations.
Limits
The tool does not score workability, decide whether a strategy is valid, or generate alternatives automatically.
Does the tool decide whether a strategy is workable?
No. It organizes reported information so the practitioner and client can examine workability collaboratively.
Can a review be saved if no alternative response is identified?
Yes. The formulation can still be useful when strategies, payoffs, costs, and valued-living relation are clear.
Is this completed by the client alone?
No. The supported experience is collaborative, practitioner-guided completion during ACT work.