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. 2023 Sep 6;23:657. doi: 10.1186/s12888-023-05134-8

Table 3.

The Purpose and Goal of the Journey of the Brave Counseling Program

Unit Title Goal Content
1 Preparation

1. Understanding the nature and the purpose of the program

2. Assisting group members in knowing one another

3. Setting up the rule for the group together

1. Understanding the Journey of the Brave

2. Meeting and greeting

3. Our appointment

2 Start-off

1. Understanding emotions

2. Understanding the way to express emotions

3. Knowing miracle scores

1. Emotional words competition

2. Changeable emotions

3. Miracle scores

4. Time to share

3 Plan

1. Knowing anxious feelings

2. Exploring the cause make oneself uneasy and the degree of the uneasiness

3. Setting the goal of the Journey of the Brave

1. Anxious feeling

2. The goal for the Journey of the Brave

3. Time to share

4 Basic Skill-Muscle Relaxation

1. Understanding anxious feelings and physical reaction

2. Finding out what to do when knowing physical reaction

3. Practicing the way of relaxation

1. Top challenge

2. Physical reaction

3. Relaxation practice

4. Time to share

5 Applied Skill-A Ladder for the Brave

1. Understanding the trap that anxiety sets up

2. Understanding that facing the anxiety is the best solution

3. Building up the brave’s ladder

1. The tips for anxious feelings

2. Building up a ladder for the Brave

3. Time to share

6 Developed Skill- the Brave’s Triangle

1. Understanding the relation among thoughts, emotions, and behaviors

2. Creating a triangle for the brave

1. A quiz game

2. Knowing the brave’s triangle

3. Creating a triangle for the brave

4. Time to share

7 The Naughty Elf that Confuses the Brave

1. Understanding the thoughts in mind when feeling anxious and the knowing the types of anxiety

2. Understanding the impact of the anxiety

3. Understanding how to resolve the anxious feeling

1. Naughty Elf’s words

2. A magic trick-running round in circles

3. The secret to break the magic trick

4. Time to share

8 An Ultimate Weapon of the Brave-How the Brave Thinks

1. Knowing the brave’s way of thinking

2. Practicing knowing the brave’s way of thinking

3. Practicing thinking of the reason whey one feels anxious

4. Practicing reviewing how one thinks

1. Knowing the brave’s way of thinking

2. Examining the Naughty Elf’s words

3. The brave’s way of thinking

4. Time to share

9 Secret Skills of the Brave-the Way the Brave Talks

1. Knowing the anxious situation within interpersonal relation

2. Practicing interpersonal communication skills

1. Scenarios story

2. How the brave talks

3. Other skills practice

4. Time to share

10 A Test at the End of the Journey of the Brave

1. Reviewing the group counseling process

2. Sharing feedbacks with group members

1. The Journey of the Brave counseling session reviews

2. Feedback time

3. Closing time