Solution Focused Flashcards
1
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Focus
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Treatment Focuses on Cognitions and Behavior.
2
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Assumptions (7)
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- Language determines meaning
- There are multiple perspectives of reality
- Client already knows what they need to do to solve complaints.
- Rejection of resistance
- Small changes is all that is needed.
- Change is inevitable.
- Effective treatment can be done without therapist knowing presenting problem.
3
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How do symptoms develop?
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- arise from faulty attempts at problem solution.
- client seen as “stuck”
- client constrained by narrow views of problem and thus perpetuates rigid patterns of false solutions.
4
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Goals for Therapy
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- defined by client.
- start solution process by shifting context from complaint narrative to solution narrative.
5
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Workable goals are:
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- small not large
- salient/important to the client
- described in specific, concrete behavioral terms.
- achievable within practical context of client’s life.
- perceived by client as involving hard work.
- described as “start of something” rather than “end”
- treated as involving new behaviors rather than absence or cessation of existing behaviors.
6
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Role of Therapist
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Active in moving client away from worry about predicaments and toward steps to solution.
7
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Therapy Set-Up
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Anyone who is interested in the presenting problem is seen, not necessarily the whole family.
8
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Therapy Process
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2 Fundamental strategies:
- develop well-defined goals in clients’ frame of reference.
- generate solutions based on EXCEPTIONS.
9
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Categories of Therapist-Client Relationship
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Visitor, Complainant, Customer
10
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Interventions
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Questions about perceptions Not feelings
- Exception finding Questions
- Coping Questions
- Miracle Question
- Scaling Questions
Giving Compliments.
Specific Assignments:
- formula first session task.
- prediction task
- generic formula tasks
