#solution-focused therapy

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EMDR Therapy With Calgary Psychologist

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There is a fascinating discussion in the current issue of the Journal of Systemic Therapies (JST)* between solution-focused practitioners, Yvonne Dolan and Terry Trepper, and narrative practitioners, Jill Freedman and Gene Combs, facilitated by Jeff Chang and Tracy Mitchell. They are discussing the growth of the so-called postmodern therapies, including narrative and solution-focused, and their discussion has very much struck a chord with me. One of the themes running through their discussion was the connections between the approaches, and how these had weakened over time, the “diverse belongingness” that existed at the time of the first Therapeutic Conversations conference in 1991 – “a sparkling moment in the development of postmodern collaborative therapies” – being replaced by a sense of being “much more separate now”. As Yvonne said, perhaps this separation was necessary as the different post-modern approaches sought to “self-clarify”, and in order to do this, pointed up how they contrasted with other approaches. If this article and Jeff Chang’s excellent plenary** on integration at last year’s European Brief Therapy Association conference are harbingers of a rapprochement between solution-focused and narrative therapies, then perhaps this suggests that the postmodern approaches have arrived at a place of greater self-confidence. A place where there is less need to self-clarify by contrasting and a growing desire to (re-)connect with and (re-)learn from each other. These thoughts may be driven by a measure of wishful thinking on my part, though I hope this is not the case. In an earlier post I mentioned my attendance at a narrative conference in Palestine last October (having just looked at it I see I promised to write more, though haven’t as yet – I shall set my mind to this soon!). This was an inspiring experience, in which I saw connections with solution-focused practice all over the place – as well as empowering narrative ideas and activities that, to be fair, would not have emerged from a solution-focused approach (though which, I think/suspect/hope, could sit well alongside solution-focused practice). I was reminded, and even more so when I read the JST piece, of the way narrative ideas were dropped into the training in the solution-focused approach that I received in the mid-90s, and of how they enriched the approach – thinking of Landscape of Identity questions as an example – and I see this more clearly now, perhaps as I am more “self-clarified” solution-focused-wise? So I welcome a coming together, a coming together of diversity. There is a second instalment of the conversation between Jeff, Tracy, Terry, Yvonne, Jill and Gene to come, in a future JST issue (the next one I presume), and I look forward to reading and writing more on these developments.

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Solution-Focused Therapy

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), also called Solution-Focused Therapy, Solution-Building Practice therapy was developed by Steve de Shazer (1940-2005), and Insoo Kim Berg (1934-2007). Since that early development, SFBT has not only become one of the leading schools of brief therapy, it has become a major influence in such diverse fields as business, social policy, education, and criminal justice services, child welfare, domestic violence offenders treatment. Described as a practical, goal-driven model, a hallmark of SFBT is its emphasis on clear, concise, realistic   goal negotiations. The SFBT approachassumes that all clients have some knowledge of what would make their life better, even though they may need some (at times, considerable) help describing the details of their better life and that everyone who seeks help already possesses at least the minimal skills necessary to create solutions. The SFBT approach is unique in that it focuses on the currently presenting problems for the client and focuses solutions around this rather than focusing on a diagnosis i.e. Depression etc.

Key Concepts and Tools:

Looking for previous solutions- most people have previously solved many, many problems and probably have some ideas of how to solve the current problem.

Looking for exceptions- Even when a client does not have a previous solution that can be repeated, most have recent examples of exceptions to their problem. These are times when a problem could occur, but does not.

Present and future-focused questions vs. past-oriented focus- The questions asked by SF therapists are usually focused on the present or on the future. This reflects the basic belief that problems are best solved by focusing on what is already working, and how a client would like their life to be, rather than focusing on the past and the origin of problems.

Compliments- Validating what clients are already doing well, and acknowledging how difficult their problems are encourages the client to change while giving the message that the therapist has been listening (i.e., understands) and cares.

Miracle Question (MQ)- This unusual sounding tool is a powerful in generating the first small steps of 'solution states' by helping clients to describe small, realistic, and doable steps they can take as soon as the next day.It involves asking the client questions such as “Suppose while you are asleep, the problem that you have is miraculously solved. But because this happens when you are sleeping, you have no idea that there was a miracle and the problems is solved . . . so when you are slowly coming out of your sound sleep . . .what would be the first small sign that will make you wonder . . .there must’ve been a miracle . . .the problem is all gone!How would you discover this?”

Most clients visibly change in their demeanour and some even break out in smiles as they describe their solutions. The next step is to identify the most recent times when the client has had small pieces of miracles (called exceptions) and get them to repeat these forgotten experiences.

Scaling Questions & Coping Questions- Scaling questions are useful in helping clients to assess their own situations, track their own progress, or evaluate how others might rate them. Coping questions act as a powerful reminder that all clients engage in many useful things even in times of overwhelming difficulties.

Source: http://www.solutionfocused.net/solutionfocusedtherapy.html