Risk River Journey
A visual approach to understanding how our choices can shape our future.
Purpose
Risk River Journey introduces a visual approach to help clients understand and talk about how their environment, thinking and behaviours can affect their future.
The client identifies the risks that particularly apply to them and explores with the therapist which protective factors and behavioural tools may help them cross the river safely rather than be swept away.
Approach
The client selects a Stressor / Situation card that applies to them and discusses with the therapist how it has affected them. They may then explore an Impact card, Sexual Behaviour card and/or an Unhelpful Thinking card.
Next, the client and therapist examine the Dynamic Risk cards and consider the effect each factor might have. The river crossing is completed by identifying Protective Factors and choosing approaches from the Tool Kit that may help the client to stay safe.
The cards
- Stressor / Situation — 20 cards plus 1 blank
- Impact — 7 cards plus 1 blank
- Sexual Behaviour — 11 cards
- Unhelpful Thinking — 10 cards plus 1 blank
- Dynamic Risks — 7 cards
- Protective Factors — 13 cards
- My Tool Kit — 17 cards
Next step
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