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Solution-Focused Therapy:
What it is and What it is not:
What it is not:
A quick fix.
A one size fits all bandaid approach to therapy.
A cookbook approach to therapy.
A therapy technique that you 'sometimes' use.
Shallow and superficial.
Only for use with clients who have a limited mental health insurance
benefit.
What it is:
A model which has evolved over years of thought,
research and experience.
A model which places the highest emphasis on respect for clients
and their competence, strengths and resources.
A model in which building a collaborative relationship with the
client is key.
A systems-based model of therapy.
A model of therapy that recognizes that change is inevitable and
ongoing.
A goal-directed model of therapy.
A model which focuses on working collaboratively *with* the client
to build solutions.
A model which challenges the assumption that learning all about
the etiology of the problem is the only way to find the solution
to that problem.
A model which holds that there is no one single 'correct' or 'valid'
way to live one's life; and because this is so, it is the client's
goals, not the therapist's that should be identified and accomplished.
And what else is it:
And there are times when it is also any of
the things listed as 'what solution focus is not'. Any of those
things may be useful to someone at one time or another. Why limit
our options? Just because I don't find them useful doesn't mean
that someone else won't. (Dan Gallagher.)
- This was written by
Keren Suberri
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