Teen-Focused Resources · TE-07

Decision-Making Scenarios

Practice weighing options, values, consequences, uncertainty, power, and support in realistic situations.

Clinician-created · specialist review required

Client group: Teens20-35 minutesGuided worksheetAdult professional use

For clinician-facilitated use

This is a professional resource, not a child-facing online service. A licensed clinician or other qualified adult must determine suitability, explain and adapt the activity, and supervise its use. Do not direct a child to access this webpage independently or enter client information.

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How to use it

Choose a fictional scenario you feel comfortable discussing.
List more than one possible response, including delaying, leaving, asking, or getting support.
Consider short- and longer-term effects, uncertainty, power, safety, and who else is responsible.
Pass or stop if a scenario feels too close to personal experience.

Reflection prompts

Which information is known and which is missing?
How do power, pressure, access, or safety affect the choices?
Who could help without taking away the teen's voice?

Facilitator guidance

Do not present one universal correct answer where context varies. Use appropriate safeguarding judgment for scenarios involving substances, sex, violence, exploitation, self-harm, health, or illegal activity; never use the activity to rehearse concealment.

Adaptations & accessibility

Offer two low-intensity options before open brainstorming.
Use visual consequence maps or role-neutral characters.
Let the teen create or reject scenarios.

Professional-use review

Enhanced licensed-clinician, safeguarding, legal, and developmental review required; local response procedures must be supplied by the practice.

This clinician-created resource is published for professional evaluation. Before client use, the treating clinician or other qualified adult must determine whether it is appropriate and complete every specialist, accessibility, safeguarding, and local-policy review named above. Publication does not represent individualized clinical approval.