Scaling questions can be used when there is not enough time to use the miracle question and it is also useful in helping clients to assess their own situations, track their own progress, or evaluate how others might rate them on a scale of 0 to 10. This is my favorite part of a session. It gives me the opportunity to use all the information the client shared and ask questions that are empowering and action oriented. This question moves clients to a possible solution, were they realized the steps needed to carry them out. This question or tool is very powerful in generating the first small steps towards a solution, by helping clients describe small, doable steps they can take immediately. Once the rapport is created, the client is gently invited to do more of what worked in the past or to try different solutions that they would like to try. Inviting the clients to do more of what is working: Acknowledging what clients are doing well in spite of the challenge, and validating how difficult their problems are, inspires the client to change while giving the message that the therapist has been listening. Keeping our attention in the past or in the problem will interfere with moving forward.Ĭompliments are a crucial element of solution focused brief therapy. SFBT mirrors the basic belief that solutions to a problem are more easily solved when the attentions goes to what is already working and what the clients want their life to be. Something else happens instead even though the situation was ideal for the problem to manifest. Situations when the problem could have happened but didn't. The following techniques support the clarification of those solutions and the means of achieving them:Īs a therapist, I am aware that most people have experienced solving problems and that possibly they have some ideas on how to resolve the current issue.Ĭlients are invited to talk about recent examples of exceptions to the problem. With SFBT, the conversation is directed toward discovering, expanding and realizing the client’s vision of solutions. The first step towards a solution is coming to a session! Key Concepts and Tools SFBT believes that everyone who seeks help already possesses some or all the skills necessary to create solutions. The SFBT approach presumes that all clients intrinsically know the solutions to a problem, even though they may need some help defining the details of the ideal outcome. As the name suggests, Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is future-focused, goal-directed, and focuses on solutions, rather than on the problems that brought clients to seek therapy.ĭescribed as a practical, goal-driven model, an emblem of SFBT is its focus on clear, concise, realistic goal negotiations.
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