What are solution focused approaches?
Solution-focused practice concentrates on helping people move towards the future that they want and to learn what can be done differently by using their existing skills, strategies and ideas – rather than focusing on the problem. This approach treats the child or young person as the expert on their own life.
What is Miracle question solution focused therapy?
The miracle question or “problem is gone” question is a method of questioning that a coach, therapist, or counselor can utilize to invite the client to envision and describe in detail how the future will be different when the problem is no longer present.
What is the miracle question examples?
The basic format of the miracle question is “Now I want to ask you a strange question. Suppose that one night while you were asleep, there was a miracle and this problem was solved. However because you were sleeping you don’t know that the miracle has happened.
Is solution focused therapy CBT?
Solution Focused Therapy vs. SFT differs from CBT in several ways. While SFT puts minimal time into describing the presenting problem and instead focuses upon possible solutions, CBT requires a clear, detailed description of the problem(s).
How do I become more solution focused?
Solutions-focused Thinking
- Develop a beginner’s mind.
- Don’t fix what isn’t broken.
- Stop doing what doesn’t work, and do something else.
- Find what works, and do more of it.
- Be sensitive to positive outcomes.
What is an exception question?
Exception Questions: Are there occasions in the person’s life when their problems could have occurred but did not. – or at least were less severe? Exception questions focus on who, what, when and where. (the conditions that helped the exception to occur) – NOT WHY; exceptions should be related to client goals.
How do you structure a solution-focused therapy session?
Solution-focused approach The goal: (1) vision from the present and the future, (2) what client is doing now for the goal, (3) the goal is related to the outcome, to client’s wishes, (4) positive details of client’s future, (5) specific steps, (6) action plan in detail.
How are solution-focused self-help techniques different from other self help techniques?
Solution-Focused self-help techniques differ from most others in that they help people formulate and implement positive change by looking forward, not backwards. They do not require people to excavate painful emotions or revisit traumatic past events in order to begin making positive changes.
What is the theory of Solution Focused Therapy?
Theory Behind the Solution-Focused Approach The solution-focused approach of SFBT is founded in de Shazer and Berg’s idea that the solutions to one’s problems are typically found in the “exceptions” to the problem, meaning the times when the problem is not actively affecting the individual (Iveson, 2002).
What is the solution-focused approach of SFBT?
The solution-focused approach of SFBT is founded in de Shazer and Berg’s idea that the solutions to one’s problems are typically found in the “exceptions” to the problem, meaning the times when the problem is not actively affecting the individual (Psychology Today, n.d.).
Who is Terry Trepper and what is Solution Focused Therapy?
Terry S. Trepper, Ph.D. is Research Advisor and Author at the Institute for Solution Focused Therapy. His scholarly and training interests include the evidence-basis of solution-focused therapy, systemic and solution-focused approaches to treating substance abuse, and positive psychology.