Brief Therapies: Solution Focused Therapy

Question 1

SFT: Overview

Answer 1

• Shazar

- Focuses on solutions to problems rather than problems themselves

Question 2

SFT: Maladaptive behavior

Answer 2

Doesn’t matter, rather focus on solutions

Question 3

SFT: Therapy Goals and Techniques

Answer 3

• Patient expert and therapist is consultant who poses questions that help patient ID strengths/ resources to achieve specific goals.

Three questions

• Miracle question
• Exception question
• Scaling questions

Steps and strategies

• Start with IDing goals, miracle questions, ID exceptions and instances of success, rates status with problem.
• Therapist provides compliments for successes