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Solution Focused
Question | Answer |
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What does the Solution Focus therapist assume about thier clients? | The client is the expert about their life. |
According to a Solution Focused therapist is cooperation or resistance more important in therapy? | Cooperation is more important. |
What do Solution Focused therapist's believe about change? | That it is constant and inevitable. |
What does Solution Focused therapist believe about small change? | Small change leads to bigger change. |
How do clients change in Solution Focused Therapy? | They have their own internal resources to solve their own problems. |
What do Solution Focused therapist believe about people's actions? | That they are accountable for them. |
What do Solution Focused therapists believe about the past? | It is not neccesary to know the cause (past) of a problem to find a solution. |
According to a Solution Focused therapist how many ways are there to look at problems? | There are many ways to look at problems. |
How does a Solution Focuses therapist look at problems and solutions? | Problems and solutions are not neccessarily related. |
What does a Solution Focused therapist think about preconceptions? | Preconceptions hamper helpers. |
What are Solution Focused therapists believe about time and the client? | Only the here and now and the future is important to the client. |
Name the 4 characteristics that make Solution Focues therapies different than traditional problem focused therapies? | The solution is the expception, identify what is not a problem and build off solutions, client is the expert, and notice the client's strengths. |
What does a solution focues therapist mean when they talk about "skeleton keys?" | Provide interventions that work with a variety of problems. Solutions don't have to be perfect, only have to be good enough to work. |
What are the 3 goals of Solution Focused Therapy? | Clients achieve cognitive change, clients restructure their sense of their own ability to resolve, manage, or contain their problem, and they are provided workable solutions that result in re-descriptions of themselves (empowering stories). |