Chap 11 Solution-Focused FTT

What is solution-focused therapy?

a brief, goal directed approach that focuses on solutions and strengths rather than analyzing problems and their causes

What is solution focused brief therapy (SFBT)

a therapeutic approach that helps clients identify and build on exsisting resources and sucessful behaviors to create desired change

What is social constructionism?

the view that reality and meaning are created through langauge, conversation, and social interaction

What is postmodernism?

a phiolosophical perspective that questions objective truth and empahsizes multiple realities and perspectives

What is problem free talk?

conversation that focuses on clients’ strengths, interests, successes, and resources rather than their problems

What are exceptions?

time when a problem doe not occur or occurs less frequently, revealing potential solutions already present in clients’ lives

What exception questions?

questions designed to identify occasions when clients successfully avoided or managed a problem

What is the miracle question?

a question that invites clients to imagine how they lives would be different if their problem were suddenly solved

What are scaling questions?

questions that ask clients to rate experiences, progress, motivation, or confidence on a numerical scale

What are coping questions?

questions that help clients recognize how they have managed difficult situations despite challenges

What are compliments?

therapist statements that acknowledge clients’ strengths, resources, efforts, and successes

What is the formula first session task?

an assignment encouraging clients to observe and report what happens in their lives that they would like to continue

What are goals in solution-focused therapy?

clear, specific, achieveable descriptions of the preferred future slients want to create

What is the preferred future?

the client’s vision of life after desired changes have occurred

Waht is a customer relationship?

a therapeutic relationship in which clients recognize a problem and are motivated to work toward change

What is a complainant relationship?

a therapeutic relationship in which clients acknowledge concerns but believe other are responsible for solving them

Waht is a visitor relationship?

a therapeutic relationship in which clients do not perceive a problem or see a need for change

What is a skeleton key intervention?

a general intervention that can open many possiblities for change by helping clients recognize and expand successful behaviors

What is the language of change?

conversations that emphasize strengths, solutions, possibilities, and future success rather than deficits and problems

What is a strengths-based approach?

an approach that focuses on clients’ abilities, competencies, resources, and successes

Who was Steve do Shazer?

the principle developer of solution-focused brief therapy and a founder of the brief family therapy center

Who was Insoo Kin Berg?

a co-founder of solution-focused breif therapy who helped develop many of its core techniques

What is the Brief Family Therapy Center?

the Milwaukee-based center where Solution-Focused Brief Therapy was developed and refined

What is solution-focused therapy derived from?

MRI

What is the big difference between solution-focused and MRI?

solution-focused focues on exceptions to the problem rather than the problem and cognitions rather than behavior

What does solution-focused therapy avoid?

judgements about “what is normal”

What does solution-focused therapy assume?

slients are experts on their own situation and people are resislient and resourceful

What is solution-focused therapy interested in?

language

In solution-focused therapy what is believed about the relationship between the problem and developement of the problem

solutions to problems are unrelated to the development of the problem

In solution-focused therapy what is avoided in developement of behavior disorders?

tracking the development of the problem

What does solution-focused therapy say about problem-focused thinking?

it prevents effective solutions from being recognized

What is the goal of solution-focused therapy?

resolve presenting complaint by helping client do or think differently, identify problem solving skills that might have been lost, and helping clients locate their resources

What are the conditions of solution-focused therapy?

encouraging positive talk

What happens in the assessment phase of solution-focused therapy?

hear the client’s constructions of their problems without preconceptions and avoid talk about how the problem developed