Becoming Solution-Focused In Brief Therapy
John L. Walter
Language: English
Pages: 288
ISBN: 0876306539
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
what they want. We recognize that stating the assumption in this way suggests that we believe that people possess resources and that philosophically this is inconsistent with an interactional view and process approach. To be philosophically consistent, we would not talk about deficits or resources at all and we would merely discuss processes and meaning. However, in order to highlight our positive orientation, we have deviated from the interactional level for a moment. 7. Meaning and Experience
talk. 63 Copyrighted Material 64 Becoming Solution-Focused in Brief Therapy GOAL FRAME What is your goal in coming here? WISHES OR COMPLAINTS What would you like to change about this? HYPOTHETICAL FRAME EXCEPTIONS FRAME How is this happening some now? When isn't the problem happening? When the problem is solved, what will you be doing differently? YES DELIBERATE SPONTANEOUS TASKS: DO MORE OF IT FIND OUT HOW DO A SMALL PIECE OF IT Figure 3. Pathways of Constructing Solutions 2.
means at this point that they are still apart from the movie. By bringing the movie or hypothetical solution into the present with exceptions, clients may no longer be only watching. They may be reporting as if they had stepped into the movies and are reporting their experience. If our bobsledders had watched movies of themselves only going down the run, their experience would not be as compelling as when they put themselves into the movie and experienced the run. The bobsledders in fact
the goal of therapy enables the cou- Copyrighted Material The Exceptions Frame 99 ple to see their tasks as continuing to do things like they have been achieving in the past week, that is, keeping change going. Remember our metaphor of the revolving door, and how difficult moving a revolving door from a dead stop can be and how much easier the door is to move, if it is already moving. Metaphorically, the clients' goal of continuing to do what they are already doing becomes roughly equivalent
we usually look for causes, to the present, where we map patterns of problem maintenance. Finally, with the last question, we look at the present and the future. As we shift our presuppositions away from the traditional linear notions of causality, we move toward a relativistic and "constructivist" view, as well as toward a future orientation. With the insertion of the pronoun "we" into the question, "How do we construct solutions?" we also shift from the notion of an objective reality, or even