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Simple Therapy

Simple Therapy. a step beyond SFBT Plamen Panayotov Solutions Brief Therapy and Counseling Centre Rousse Bulgaria. ‘ Improvisation requires . a profound process of assimilation  verging on forgetting. ’ Paolo Pandolfo.

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Simple Therapy

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  1. Simple Therapy a step beyond SFBT Plamen Panayotov Solutions Brief Therapy and Counseling Centre Rousse Bulgaria

  2. ‘ Improvisation requires a profound process of assimilation  verging on forgetting. ’ Paolo Pandolfo

  3. What is the most useful definition of SFBT ? A psychotherapeutic approach A way of thinking A life philosophy A toolbox (Steve de Shazer)

  4. How is this definition useful ? It allows for … • Discovering new tools • Trying them out in practice • Evaluating them • Sharing them with others • Adding them to the toolbox … thus developing the SFBT practice.

  5. Solution Focus Question: Who needs to be solution-focused ? The therapist ? ( not necessarily ) The client ? ( preferably )

  6. Question: Can we help clients become solution-focused without necessarily asking them SF questions ? The obvious answer : No . Paradoxically : Yes . If yes, how ?

  7. Question: How do you know the right TIME

  8. to ask a certain question ( to use a particular tool ) ? Answer: You either guess, or you follow the client. Question: Which one is better ?

  9. How do we follow clients ? by Listening to them and Observing their reactions

  10. quoted Ludwig Wittgenstein:

  11. DON'T THINK, BUT OBSERVE ! http://brianmft.talkspot.com/aspx/templates/topmenuclassical.aspx/msgid/362961

  12. Question:Since the therapist is too busy Observing ,

  13. Who will do the Thinking ?

  14. Obviously, the Client !

  15. How are we going to help her do it

  16. By including in most of our questions to clients: … what do you think … ?

  17. Examples: • ‘… what do you thinkyou will notice after the miracle …’ • ‘… where do you thinkyou are on a scale from …’ • ‘… what do you thinks/he would say (see, notice) …’ • ‘… what do you thinkthe next step might be (look like) …’ • ‘… when do you thinkit was a little bit better …’, etc.

  18. the Thinking Tool / Question

  19. The Basic Question ( Main Theme ) : What does the client want … • to talk about in her session ? • to be asked about ? • from our conversation ?

  20. Thus we come to …

  21. The Opening Questions : What do you think is the most useful question I can ask you as a beginning ? What do you think we need to talk about first ? What do you think we need to do first ?

  22. Opening Questions

  23. What do you think is the most common answer to the Opening Questions ? ? ?

  24. Most clients reply with Laughter or at least a Smile

  25. Insoo and Steve About Laughter video

  26. How does this question/tool“What do you think is the most useful question I can ask you as a beginning ?” provoke laughter ?

  27. By changing the focus from the client to the therapist and the conversation at hand. It’s implicit meaning is: I don’t know anything about your problem, about the possible solutions, but I don’t know also … what to ask you !

  28. This turns the therapeutic situationUpside Down

  29. When the client tells us the most useful question , we just … R e p e a t I t

  30. Echoing - the Therapeutic Wheel

  31. What happens if the client replies to the Opening Questions with : ‘ I don’t know . ’ This works as an invitation for us to use

  32. The Classical SFBT Tools : Exceptions-finding Qs Miracle Question Scaling Questions Relationship Questions Coping Questions Compliments Tasks EARS

  33. What happens if in response to the Opening Question the client asks W H Y her problem is there ?

  34. Historically When talking about why problems exist used to say:

  35. Shit A habit Happens. http://en.solutions-centre-rousse-bulgaria.org/files/The_Vomiting_Girl.pdf

  36. Exercise Try to think of an exception to this ‘explanation’ : It happened first , and then became a habit .

  37. The Final Cut of the Ockham’s razor : Everything happens first , and then becomes a habit .

  38. Clearing the ‘why’ Questions

  39. Instead of saying this to clients … we ask them the Why Clearing Questions: When did this habit happen for the first time ? How often does this habit happen lately ? When did this habit happen for the last time ? because of ...

  40. the Process: Clients come with their questions … Most therapists reply with cleveranswers SFB Therapists reply with usefulquestions (a Jesuit habit)

  41. What do you think happens when the ‘why’ is cleared ? After answering one, two, or several echoing questions what usually happens is … A Miracle:

  42. Clients BECOME Solution-Focused, and THEYask …

  43. The Awakening Question : What are we going to do about it ?

  44. Then the therapist simply writes down their answers to the Awakening Question on … what, do you think ?

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