Solution Focused Therapy

Question 1

Pioneers in SFT?

Answer 1

Steve DeShazer

Insoo Kim Berg (Married)

Question 2

SFT is a reflection of the evolution of therapy how?

Answer 2

Beyhond “here and now” to a future orientation

Not how or why problem, but how to solve

Question 3

SFT focuses on what with the client?

Answer 3

Empowerment & their strengths

Question 4

______ _______ means helping people discover the considerable power within themselves, their families, and their neighbourhoods.

Answer 4

Empowering clients

Question 5

Rather than focus on problems counsellors work with clients to discover their..

Answer 5

Personal strengths & resources

Question 6

What are the 3 main principles of SFT?

Answer 6

1. If it ain’t broken, don’t fix it.
2. Once you know what works, do more of it.
3. If something doesn’t work in therapy, don’t do it again. Do something different.

Question 7

There are also 2 thoughts regarding SFT, they are:

Answer 7

No behaviour happens all the time

Our perception is our reality

Question 8

In regard to behaviour we look for the _______ and these four IF IT IS’s:

Answer 8

Exception
If it is from the past, do it again
If it is from the present, do more of it
If it is pretend, do a small piece of it
If it is from other people, try their ways

Question 9

According to SFT, problems are only…

Answer 9

As powerful as our perceptions of them

Question 10

SFT works in part by creating reality through…

Answer 10

Language

Question 11

Rather than being depressed, a SFT would say that one:

Answer 11

Is battling depression (about the verb!)

Question 12

There are four P Stages in the SFT process:

Answer 12

Purpose
Potentials
Plan
Progress

Question 13

Here we externalize & reconstruct the problem.

Answer 13

Purpose

Question 14

In reconstructing the problem we use language that casts the problem as _______ and in the ____ ______.

Answer 14

Changeable, past tense

Question 15

We also do these two things in reconstructing the problem:

Answer 15

Normalize it!

Scaling questions

Question 16

“Suppose that one night, while you were asleep, there was a miracle and this problem was solved. How would you know? What would be different?”

Answer 16

The Miracle Question!

Question 17

This stage represents the If it is statements:

Answer 17

Potentials

Question 18

In regard to making a plan it should be: (2)

Answer 18

Small & specific

Question 19

What examples of words should we use in making a plan?

Answer 19

Experiment, Pretend, Positive

Question 20

This is the follow up on what went well, what worked, what was better & gives a chance to build on successes.

Answer 20

Progress

Question 21

SFT focuses on the Language of ______

Answer 21

Solutions.

Question 22

What are the 5 questions in the Lines of Enquiry?

Answer 22

What is the goal?
When do little pieces of that happen?
How do you do that?
What good things result from that?
What’s next?

Question 23

In SFT there are three relationships w/ the client:

Answer 23

Client as a visitor
Client as a complainant
Client as a customer

Question 24

T/F Goals in SFT should be process or action oriented:

Answer 24

TRUE

Question 25

Goals in SFT should be structured in the:

Answer 25

Here-and-now

Question 26

Lofty goals?

Answer 26

No. Attainable, concrete & specific.

Question 27

Solutions in SFT should be controlled or presented by:

Answer 27

The Client