From the time that I was introduced to the Solution Focused Approach I was told it is a strength-based approach. However, this description has never felt quite right to me and somehow feels like an inaccurate characterization of what a […]
Several years ago I was attending a conference workshop being taught by one of my mentors (and closest friends) Chris Iveson when the topic of being a purist came up as another event attendee posed a question to Chris. His […]
Let me start by saying I find this topic one of the most difficult to write about. Over the past few years I have started many times on a blog about this subject only to scrap it paragraphs in for […]
One of the components of the Solution Focused Approach that makes it so different from other approaches to psychotherapy is the brevity with which treatment is completed. However, to view Solution Focused Brief Therapy as simply focusing on completing therapy […]
Somehow the idea that a practitioner using this approach is not interested in a client’s past history has become another myth about this approach that has gotten quite popular. However, this could not be more inaccurate. The past is where […]
Another myth I have been hearing about the Solution Focused Approach since my earliest days of studying is that this method of psychotherapy does not address “deep issues” or resolve issues with long standing outcomes. To be honest, of all […]
From the very first day I mentioned to colleagues that I was interested in Solution Focused Brief Therapy, they began saying to me “I don’t like the Solution Focused Approach because it ignores the problem”. Well I suppose that the […]
A few years ago, while I was working at a mental health agency, I was in a staff supervision meeting for the therapists employed by this agency. During this meeting we were all required to show a videotape of our […]
Becoming proficient with the Solution Focused Approach is extremely hard work. This approach requires a level of discipline and fidelity that surpasses what is needed to be effective with other approaches to psychotherapy. Not that learning other approaches is not […]
In the past few years I have spent a large amount of time reviewing videotapes of my work with clients. In the early days of my therapy career it just made sense to me that if I wanted to improve […]
