Personal Development
Life Builder ~ Goal Building ~ Personal Resilience
Employement Seeker ~ Life Simplifier ~ Progress Tracker
Employement Seeker ~ Life Simplifier ~ Progress Tracker
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Dashometrics personal development products are based on the premise that personal growth is not only good for its own sake, but is therapeutic for mood conditions as well. Personal growth elevates functioning and functioning gains almost always translate into mood gains – just as the reverse is also true.
Like all Dashometric products, simplicity and ease of use is key. The core product in this line is called the “Life Builder-1” which is based on a model that has been clinically tested and successful over and over again. The feedback we keep hearing from clients is “I can do this”. And they’re right. |
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It also cannot be emphasized enough: the use of this tool and approach is also a powerful treatment retention tool. People engage in therapeutic and growth efforts when they feel like they can succeed at it. When the therapeutic process helps people feel successful, they engage in it. When the process highlights failure or feels like failure, people avoid it.
Our other tools can be used either independently or in conjunction with the Life Builder model. Many of our products in this area are designed to improve the use of agency, self-efficacy and goal orientation. As ever, our products encourage and reward self-responsibility. Most of them are designed to help respondents and users generate their own ideas. As we all know, these are the ideas clients are most likely to act on and feel empowered by. |
Energy & Intention-1 |
Energy and Intention-1 helps a client to explore personal development as it relates to engaging in activities with intention. It provokes thoughts about where a client is putting their efforts and energy, and helps the client to re-evaluate the costs and benefits of where they are currently putting their energy and intention.
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Life Builder-1
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The Life Builder-1 is based on a concept that has proven to be extremely popular with clients. It creates an easily recognizable and graphic concept of progress that anyone can believe in. It has a positive effect on both treatment retention and therapeutic progress. It normalizes failure and creates a realistic template for sustainable growth.
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Life Builder-1
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The Life Builder-1 Supplement provides a narrative description of the concepts established in Life Builder-1.
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Self-Responsibility
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The Self-Responsibility Builder is meant to assess and build client/patient’s sense of personal responsibility. At Dashometrics our experience is that accepting responsibility for your own problems and taking action (initiative) accordingly are the foundation of virtually all sustainable developmental and therapeutic progress.
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Initiative Builder-1
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The Initiative Builder-1 is the companion to Self-Responsibility, and is meant to assess and build the ability to take action to meet needs and solve problems in your own life. Whereas Self-Responsibility focuses on the mind state of accepting responsibility for your life, Initiative Builder-1 focuses on the action taking phase. They go hand in hand.
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Goal Builder-1
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The Goal Builder-1 is meant to assess and support the goal development and utilization process. This tool helps identify attitudes about goals, history of goal use and where the process can be strengthened. Because helping clients and patients learn to identify and work on goals is such a critical part of therapy, understanding these concepts about the process of goal-use is critical to success.
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Goal Builder-2
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The Goal Builder-2 is meant to provide a structure for identifying and developing actual goals in the most critical areas of life. Our experience is that many respondents are more thorough in establishing goals when they work off a checklist format such as this.
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Goal Builder-3
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The Goal Builder-3 is a Suggestion Sheet that recognizes that stalls and blockages on goals are inevitable and provides a list of strategies for breaking through these blockages.
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Rut Breaker-1
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The Rut Breaker-1 is just what it sounds like; it helps respondents break out of patterns and ruts. We also notice that when clients and patients are able to escape some of these ruts, they all also resume progress on their personal goals.
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Avoidance
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The Avoidance Breaker-1 is a product meant to help provider and respondents better understand the “avoidance profile” of the respondent. Avoidance of at least some things is nearly universal and for some respondents is almost crippling. Yet as this tool will demonstrate, the patterns and areas of avoidance vary and it pays to know exactly which ones need to be addressed.
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Self-Esteem
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The Self-Esteem Builder is one of our rare two page forms and utilizes the powerful concepts developed by Nathaniel Brandon (we highly encourage the reading of his works by therapist and client alike). This will allow providers and their client/patients to identify and build off strengths in this area and also become more aware of the areas that need work.
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Personal Power
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Personal Power and Resilience is meant to help identify positive “exceptions”, those empowering instances in past history where goals have been achieved, avoidances overcome, anxiety tolerated and resilience demonstrated.
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Employment
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The Employment Seeker-1 focuses on the very narrow issue of why certain client/patients are not working, how they support themselves in the absence of work, who might be enabling them and how they can return to the life affirming process of employment.
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Life Simplifier-1
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Life Simplifier-1 is a product that is almost universally beneficial, but is especially useful for reducing anxiety and should be used with any client that has higher anxiety. It is a rare client who cannot reduce their baseline of anxiety at least somewhat by better understanding how and where they are taking on too much in their life. This product creates a simple and easy to use structure to simplify life and live more effectively.
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Progress
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The Progress Tracker-1 is a way for both client and provider to look at critical developmental and psychological dimensions and see where progress has been made and what areas most need further effort. An important goal of this tool is to help build the client's subjective experience of progress and their morale for continued effort.
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