Consolidating gains, celebrating growth, and creating a sustainable plan for maintaining the 'preferred future' independently.

Developing a specific 'work win' strategy by focusing on past successes with task completion and academic engagement.

Exploring how positive changes in behavior affect relationships with teachers and peers, reducing arguments through the ripple effect.

Using scaling questions to measure progress in school attendance and anger management while identifying specific steps for improvement.

Identifying 'exceptions'—times when the problem could have happened but didn't—to help the student recognize her own coping skills.

Introduction to SFBT, building rapport, and using the Miracle Question to define the student's preferred future without elopement or anger.