Correlations/assumptions

Question 1

List two correlations between solution focused therapy and the key purposes of therapy.

Answer 1

• Maintains a clear and specific focus
• High level of therapist activity
• Maintenance of an awareness of time
• Therapist’s encouragement of the clients being outside of therapy

Question 2

List five assumptions of solution focused therapy.

Answer 2

• Change is constant and inevitable
• Clients are the experts, clients want change and clients define goals
• Emphasis on what is possible & changeable
• Short term
• View of clients as resourceful, competent, healthy (positive orientation).
• Clients have strengths & the ability to solve problems.
• It is easier to construct solutions than dissolve problems
• A small change is important, may be all that is necessary and may lead to other/larger change.
• Change may begin with an emotional change, a cognitive change, or a behavioral change.
• Rapid change is possible.

Question 3

Major tenets of SFBT

Answer 3

-If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it

-If it works, do more of it

• If it’s not working, do something different
• Small steps can lead to big changes
• The solution is not necessarily directly related to the problem
• The language for solution development is different from that needed to describe a problem.
• No problems happen all the time; there are always exceptions that can be utilized.
• The future is both created and negotiable

Question 4

Assumptions from internet

Answer 4

• Focus on solutions, strengths, and health.
• Systems perspective
• Interrelatedness of all systems