scholarly journals Solution-focused brief therapy

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Iveson
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Brief Therapy ◽  
Problem Behaviour ◽  
Future Goals ◽  
Solution Focused Brief Therapy ◽  
Central Notion ◽  
Solution Focused ◽  
Therapy Center

Solution-focused brief therapy is an approach to psychotherapy based on solution-building rather than problem-solving. It explores current resources and future hopes rather than present problems and past causes and typically involves only three to five sessions. It has great value as a preliminary and often sufficient intervention and can be used safely as an adjunct to other treatments. Developed at the Brief Family Therapy Center, Milwaukee (de Shazer et al, 1986), it originated in an interest in the inconsistencies to be found in problem behaviour. From this came the central notion of ‘exceptions’: however serious, fixed or chronic the problem there are always exceptions and these exceptions contain the seeds of the client's own solution. The founders of the Milwaukee team, de Shazer (1988, 1994) and Berg (Berg, 1991; Berg & Miller, 1992), were also interested in determining the goals of therapy so that they and their clients would know when it was time to end! They found that the clearer a client was about his or her goals the more likely it was that they were achieved. Finding ways to elicit and describe future goals has since become a pillar of solution-focused brief therapy.

Solution-Focused Brief Counseling in Schools

2019 ◽  
pp. 123-139
Author(s):  
Sladjana S. Rakich ◽  
Danny R. Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
Brief Therapy ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Brief Counseling ◽  
Solution Focused Brief Therapy ◽  
Problem Solve ◽  
Solution Focused

Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) has become a popular methodology used in business, counseling, and other fields to help individuals problem-solve. In education, this approach is known as solution-focus brief counseling (SFBC). This chapter will review the origins of the solution-focused approach to counseling and problem-solving, present the major tenants, and discuss challenges. The chapter will also present interview data from current school counselors to examine how school counselors use SFBC in schools and provide strategies for implementation.

A Theoretical Investigation of Postmodern Approaches Used in Medical Settings

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 200-207
Author(s):  
Jeehee Sung ◽  
Nicolle Mayo ◽  
Alyssa Banford Witting
Keyword(s):  
Family Therapy ◽  
Theoretical Investigation ◽  
Brief Therapy ◽  
Medical Setting ◽  
Medical Family Therapy ◽  
Medical Settings ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Solution Focused Brief Therapy ◽  
Solution Focused

This study attempts to investigate the use of one of the postmodern family therapy theories, solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) in the medical setting. Although SFBT is being widely used in medical settings, a thorough theoretical investigation about its suitability to this area has not been presented. In order to discuss the use of SFBT in the expanding practice of medical family therapy (MedFT), the underpinnings of MedFT and SFBT are examined, in addition to the integrative potential of SFBT with the dominant theoretical perspectives guiding MedFT, as well as SFBT’s suitability to the medical setting based on the requirements Doherty and Baird suggested. Challenging features of implementing SFBT in medical settings are noted, along with relevant suggestions to resolve these obstacles.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Elliott E. Connie
Keyword(s):  
Brief Therapy ◽  
Family Therapist ◽  
Professional Counselors ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Social Work Educators ◽  
Marriage And Family Therapist ◽  
Solution Focused Brief Therapy ◽  
Solution Focused ◽  
Therapy Center ◽  
Therapeutic Model

Over the past two decades, solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) has become a popular therapeutic model for marriage and family therapist, professional counselors, and social work educators and practitioners. This chapter will provide a historical overview of how SFBT was developed inductively from a multidisciplinary team of clinicians working at the Mental Research Institute in the 1970s, the development of the Brief Family Therapy Center in the 1980s by de Shazer and Kim-Berg, and the development of the Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Association in the 2000s. This chapter will also cover the basic tenets of SFBT, an overview of the process of a SFBT session, and serve as an introduction to the rest of the book

Solution-Focused Brief Counseling in Schools

2021 ◽  
pp. 109-126
Author(s):  
Sladjana S. Rakich ◽  
Danny R. Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
School Counselors ◽  
Brief Therapy ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Brief Counseling ◽  
Solution Focused Brief Therapy ◽  
Problem Solve ◽  
Solution Focused

Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) has become a popular methodology used in business, counseling, and other fields to help individuals problem-solve. In education, this approach is known as solution-focus brief counseling (SFBC). This chapter will review the origins of the solution-focused approach to counseling and problem-solving, present the major tenants, and discuss challenges. The chapter will also present interview data from current school counselors to examine how school counselors use SFBC in schools and provide strategies for implementation.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Clients Managing Trauma

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Brief Therapy ◽  
Treatment Approach ◽  
Traumatic Experiences ◽  
Clinical Expertise ◽  
Therapeutic Approaches ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Strength Based ◽  
Solution Focused Brief Therapy ◽  
Unique Approach ◽  
Solution Focused

This book is a comprehensive overview of how solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) can be used as a treatment approach for working with clients managing various forms of trauma. This book includes an overview of SFBT with its basic tenets and a description of the current research supporting SFBT as an evidence-based practice. This is followed by a comparison of how SFBT clinicians may approach trauma cases differently than clinicians from other therapeutic approaches. The bulk of the book includes various chapters contributed by skilled SFBT clinicians, with differing clinical expertise, illustrating SFBT as it is applied to different traumatic experiences/clinical cases. This book is the first solution-focused book to comprehensively discuss how traumatized clients can be helped to develop a unique preferred future and move toward healing and health. The distinguishing feature of this book lies not only in its unique approach to trauma but also in the outstanding contributors from various specialties in the field of trauma and SFBT: These contributors will share their knowledge and describe their strength-based, resiliency focus of applying SFBT in different traumatic circumstances.

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy With Substance-Using Individuals

2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 452-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johnny S. Kim ◽  
Jody Brook ◽  
Becci A. Akin
Keyword(s):  
Substance Use ◽  
Linear Models ◽  
Brief Therapy ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Addiction Severity Index ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Solution Focused Brief Therapy ◽  
Solution Focused

Objective: This study examined the effectiveness of solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) intervention on substance abuse and trauma-related problems. Methods: A randomized controlled trial design was used to evaluate the effectiveness of SFBT in primary substance use treatment services for child welfare involved parents in outpatient treatment for substance use disorders. Mixed linear models were used to test within- and between-group changes using intent-to-treat analysis ( N = 64). Hedges’s g effect sizes were also calculated to examine magnitude of treatment effects. Results: Both groups decreased on the Addiction Severity Index-Self-Report and the Trauma Symptom Checklist-40. The between group effect sizes were not statistically significant on either measures, thus SFBT produced similar results as the research supported treatments the control group received. Conclusion: Results support the use of SFBT in treating substance use and trauma and provide an alternative approach that is more strengths based and less problem focused.

Solution Focused Brief Therapy: Establishing Goals and Assessing Competence

1994 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 95-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Iveson
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Suicide Risk ◽  
Brief Therapy ◽  
Memory Loss ◽  
Occupational Therapists ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Suicide Risk Assessment ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Solution Focused Brief Therapy ◽  
Solution Focused

A new approach to counselling, solution focused brief therapy, is based on assumptions of client well-being which are very close to those underlying the work of occupational therapists. Two cases, one of memory loss and one of suicide risk assessment, are used to illustrate the principles of brief therapy translated into everyday practice.

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