Decision-Making Scenarios

How to use it

1. Choose a fictional scenario you feel comfortable discussing.
2. List more than one possible response, including delaying, leaving, asking, or getting support.
3. Consider short- and longer-term effects, uncertainty, power, safety, and who else is responsible.
4. 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.

Review considerations

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