After asking 'What would you rather be doing?', which follow-up question completes the prompt 'What is ________?'

After asking 'What would you rather be doing?', which follow-up question completes the prompt 'What is ________?'

• A. what are you unhappy with?
• B. what do you not like about?
• C. what would you rather be doing?
• D. keeping you from doing that?

Answer: (D)

Uncovering barriers to action is the focus here. After you ask what you’d rather be doing, the best follow-up is to ask what is keeping you from doing that. This directly invites the client to name the obstacles, triggers, or lack of supports that make it hard to act on their goal. With that information, you can tailor practical help, problem-solve, and connect the person with the right supports to move toward the desired activity, which is a core recovery-focused approach. The other options don’t center on barriers to action. Asking what you’re unhappy with or what you don’t like about it shifts the conversation to feelings about the goal rather than concrete obstacles. Repeating the same question doesn’t advance the dialogue.

Uncovering barriers to action is the focus here. After you ask what you’d rather be doing, the best follow-up is to ask what is keeping you from doing that. This directly invites the client to name the obstacles, triggers, or lack of supports that make it hard to act on their goal. With that information, you can tailor practical help, problem-solve, and connect the person with the right supports to move toward the desired activity, which is a core recovery-focused approach.

The other options don’t center on barriers to action. Asking what you’re unhappy with or what you don’t like about it shifts the conversation to feelings about the goal rather than concrete obstacles. Repeating the same question doesn’t advance the dialogue.