SOLUTION FOCUSED

1. SOLUTION FOCUSED

2. 7 PRINCIPLES • Emphasis on Mental Health - Focus on the success of clients in dealing with their problems.

3. 7 PRINCIPLES • Emphasis on Mental Health - Focus on the success of clients in dealing with their problems • Utilization - Quality treatment involves eliciting from the client their strengths, resources, and health attributes that are needed to solve the presenting problem.

4. 7 PRINCIPLES • Emphasis on Mental Health - Focus on the success of clients in dealing with their problems. • Utilization - Quality treatment involves eliciting from the client their strengths, resources, and health attributes that are needed to solve the presenting problem. • An Atheoretical/Nonnormative/ Client Determined View - Therapist serves client by learning his unique way of understanding the problem.

5. 7 PRINCIPLES • Emphasis on Mental Health - Focus on the success of clients in dealing with their problems. • Utilization - Quality treatment involves eliciting from the client their strengths, resources, and health attributes that are needed to solve the presenting problem. • An Atheoretical/Nonnormative/ Client Determined View - Therapist serves client by learning his unique way of understanding the problem. • Parsimony - KISS - “Tipping the first Dominos.”

6. 7 PRINCIPLES • Emphasis on Mental Health - Focus on the success of clients in dealing with their problems. • Utilization - Quality treatment involves eliciting from the client their strengths, resources, and health attributes that are needed to solve the presenting problem. • An Atheoretical/Nonnormative/ Client Determined View - Therapist serves client by learning his unique way of understanding the problem. • Parsimony - KISS - “Tipping the first Dominos.” • Change is Inevitable - “Nothing always happens”

7. 7 PRINCIPLES • Emphasis on Mental Health - Focus on the success of clients in dealing with their problems. • Utilization - Quality treatment involves eliciting from the client their strengths, resources, and health attributes that are needed to solve the presenting problem. • An Atheoretical/Nonnormative/ Client Determined View - Therapist serves client by learning his unique way of understanding the problem. • Parsimony - KISS - “Tipping the first Dominos.” • Change is Inevitable - “Nothing always happens” • Present and Future Orientation

8. 7 PRINCIPLES • Emphasis on Mental Health - Focus on the success of clients in dealing with their problems. • Utilization - Quality treatment involves eliciting from the client their strengths, resources, and health attributes that are needed to solve the presenting problem. • An Atheoretical/Nonnormative/ Client Determined View - Therapist serves client by learning his unique way of understanding the problem. • Parsimony - KISS - “Tipping the first Dominos.” • Change is Inevitable - “Nothing always happens” • Present and Future Orientation • Cooperation

9. CENTRAL PHILOSOPHY • If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it! • Once you know what works, do more of it! • If it doesn’t work, then don’t do it again. Do something different!

10. The Basics -Let’s Getting Started

11. Problem Description • Asking for Client’s Perception & Respecting Client Language (Posture of “Not Knowing”)

12. Problem Description • How does the problem affect the client? (How is this problem a problem for you?)

13. Problem Description • What has the client tried? (Focus is on client competencies)

14. Problem Description • What is most important for client to work on first? Questions to ask • “Which of these is the most important to work on first?” • “What is happening in your life that tells you it’s important to work on this first?”

15. 7 Qualities of Well-Formed Goals • Saliency to the client - (Important to the client).

16. 7 Qualities of Well-Formed Goals • Saliency to the client - (Important to the client). • Small - small enough so they can be achieved

17. 7 Qualities of Well-Formed Goals • Saliency to the client - (Important to the client). • Small - small enough so they can be achieved. • Concrete, Specific, & Behavioral.

18. 7 Qualities of Well-Formed Goals • Saliency to the client - (Important to the client). • Small - small enough so they can be achieved. • Concrete, Specific, & Behavioral. • The presence of rather than absence of something.

19. 7 Qualities of Well-Formed Goals • Saliency to the client - (Important to the client). • Small - small enough so they can be achieved. • Concrete, Specific, & Behavioral. • The presence of rather than absence of something. • A beginning rather than an end.

20. 7 Qualities of Well-Formed Goals • Saliency to the client - (Important to the client). • Small - small enough so they can be achieved. • Concrete, Specific, & Behavioral. • The presence of rather than absence of something. • A beginning rather than an end. • Realistic and achievable within the context of the clients’ life.

21. 7 Qualities of Well-Formed Goals • Saliency to the client - (Important to the client). • Small - small enough so they can be achieved. • Concrete, Specific, & Behavioral. • The presence of rather than absence of something. • A beginning rather than an end. • Realistic and achievable within the context of the clients’ life. • Perceived as involving “hard work.”

22. Useful Questions • Miracle Question

23. Useful Questions • Miracle Question • Hidden Miracles (exception question)

24. Useful Questions • Miracle Question • Hidden Miracles (exception question) • Scaling Question

25. Useful Questions • Miracle Question • Hidden Miracles (exception question) • Scaling Question • Coping Questions

26. Useful Questions • Miracle Question • Hidden Miracles (exception question) • Scaling Question • Coping Questions • What Else

27. Useful Questions • Miracle Question • Hidden Miracles (exception question) • Scaling Question • Coping Questions • What Else • How do you do it? • * Don’t ask why • Stance of therapist - genuine curiosity

28. Client-Therapist Relationship • Customer - Type Relationship Goal for treatment has been identified jointly by client and therapist. Client indicates that he sees himself as part of the solution and is willing to do something. • Complaint - Type Relationship Therapists and client are jointly able to identify goal or complaint but have identified concrete steps toward solution. • Visitor - Type Relationship At end of session, the therapist and client have not jointly identified a complaint or goal.