Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques
Harvey Ratner
Language: English
Pages: 272
ISBN: 0415606136
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques provides a concise and jargon-free guide to the thinking and practice of this exciting approach, which enables people to make changes in their lives quickly and effectively. It covers:
- The history and background to solution focused practice
- The philosophical underpinnings of the approach
- Techniques and practices
- Specific applications to work with children and adolescents, (including school-based work) families, and adults
- How to deal with difficult situations
- Organisational applications including supervision, coaching and leadership.
- Frequently asked questions
This book is an invaluable resource for all therapists and counsellors, whether in training or practice. It will also be essential for any professional whose job it is to help people make changes in their lives, and will therefore be of interest to social workers, probation officers, psychiatric staff, doctors, and teachers, as well as those working in organisations as coaches and managers.
accumulate they begin to have the potential to bring that life into being. 5. Interactional. Finally, it is important that these descriptions are woven into the client’s relationships. Not only do we want the observations of others, we want a description of their responses and the effect these responses have on the client. Returning to the mother and her stay-out-late daughter: Therapist: Client: 98 When she says ‘good morning’, how might you respond? I’d say ‘good morning’ back. THE
importance of persistence. The client was being seen as a routine follow-up by a probation officer who had just completed an introductory course in SFBT and had invited the trainer at BRIEF to supervise his work. The client was a persistent and serious offender not long out of prison and said in a rather blasé fashion that he was now ‘going straight’. The probation officer, being new to the solution focused approach, was struggling to develop his powers of persistence. The supervisor suggested he
he assumed were the young man’s fears. The client acknowledged that that was correct with regard to his mother (‘she has already threatened to chuck me out’) but then proceeded to correct him that his best friend ‘would never not want to know me’. So the therapist removed that from the 0, realizing that he had risked losing the client’s trust by his assumption; as it happens, the client gave an answer of 4. So the general rule of thumb seems to be: keep ‘0’ as vague as possible, e.g. ‘0 = the
PROGRESS 48 Different scales In the previous chapter, we dealt with the general, overall scale that is used in almost every solution focused session. There are, however, numerous other scale questions that can be adapted for particular clients. A 10 represents the achievement of the client’s preferred future. In some cases, that future contains many diverse elements. It as if the therapist is mixing them all together; the client’s rating is then, in effect, an average of progress towards a
have held on to your wish to be useful to others and even after the recent setback you have been determined to improve your mobility, to be independent again, to live. You 141 SOLUTION FOCUSED BRIEF THERAPY: 100 KEY POINTS have been going out more, you have been connecting with people again, you have, as you said, been ‘living again’. As to the future you are more than clear about your goals for yourself and your best hopes from our talking and you have a very clear picture of the small signs