Solutions-Focused Based Therapy

Question 1

Change

Answer 1

FInd solutions

Question 2

A future oriented focus

Answer 2

therapists rarely focus on the past or clients histories
- understanding the cause of the problem is unnecessary
- problem cannot be solved at the same level it was created- only the present and future are explored

Question 3

Strengths based orientation

Answer 3

views clients as innately healthy, competent, and able to provide their own solutions

Question 4

A focus on solutions

Answer 4

therapists and clients look for what is already working

Question 5

“What skills do you already have and how can we strengthen those to help you?”

Question 6

Assumptions of the SFBT Model

Answer 6

• change is constant and always occurring/change is inevitable
• counseling should focus on what is changeable and possible
• clients want to change, are capable of changing, and are doing their best to change
• clients are the experts in therapy and they must develop their own goals
• clients have resources and strengths they need to solve their own problems/there is no right way to change
• every problem has exceptions, and developing awareness of these exceptions provides clues for finding solutions
• therapy should be brief and short term
• therapy should focus on the the future/ a clients past is not a focus of therapy

Question 7

“what do we do next time you are feeling this way?”

Question 8

teaching them to solve their own problems as fast as possible

Question 9

Narrative Theory (change)

Answer 9

reauthorizing thru externalizing change

-not about patholoizging or diganosing