Solution-Focused Quotes & Memes

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"Questions and compliments are the primary tools of the solution-focused approach. SF therapists and counselors deliberately refrain from making interpretations and rarely confront their clients. Instead, they focus on identifying the client's goals, generating a detailed description of what life will be like when the goal is accomplished and the problem is either gone or coped with satisfactorily. In order to develop effective solutions, they search diligently through the client's life experiences for "exceptions", e.g. times when some aspect of the client's goal was already happening to some degree, utilizing these to co-construct uniquely appropriate and effective solutions."

~ Wikipedia

 

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"No matter how long a person has been struggling with a problem or how powerful that problem has been, there are always exceptions and those exceptions can be utilized to create a new future."

~ Elliott Connie, LPC

 

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“If I accept the other person as something fixed, already diagnosed and classified, already shaped by his past, then I am doing my part to confirm this limited hypothesis. If I accept him as a process of becoming, then I am doing what I can to confirm or make real his potentialities.”

~ Carl Rogers

 

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"Solution Focus has no theory of person, no picture of the person, fully functioning or otherwise. All that interests us is talking with the client in such a way that the client reports to us that they have made sufficient progress."

~ Evan George

 

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"Suppose a man is struck by a poisoned arrow and the doctor wishes to take out the arrow immediately. Suppose the man does not want the arrow removed until he knows who shot it, his age, his parents, and why he shot it. What would happen? If he were to wait until all these questions have been answered, the man might die first."

~ Buddha, quoted in 101 Solution-Focused Questions for Help with Depression

 

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"Recovery is a long-term process; support and applaud even small gains."

~ Substance Use Disorder Treatment for People With Co-Occurring Disorders

 

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9 Ways to Shift Your Attention

An excerpt from Do One Thing Different (1999), a solution-focused self-help book by Bill O'Hanlon: Shift Your Attention Method 1: Change your sensory channel. Switch between your visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory senses. Notice which one you are using the most in the problem...

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Change your sensory channel. Switch between your visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory senses. Notice which one you are using the most in the problem situation and change to another one. Or focus on something else within the same sensory channel.

 

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Solution-focused brief therapy | Advances in Psychiatric Treatment | Cambridge Core

Solution-focused brief therapy - Volume 8 Issue 2

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Dynamic Psychotherapy

This book is a concise, practical, step-by-step introduction to the principles of dynamic psychotherapy. Designed for psychotherapists who wish to learn more about dynamic psychotherapy, the emphasis is on the practical rather than the theoretical. The book opens with a description of the steps...

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Too many people ask nothing but “Why” questions. They analyze and analyse problems - but no solution. “you can analyse a glass of water and you’re left with a lot of chemical components, but nothing you can drink”.

“Why?” questions can drive us crazy. “What?” questions drive us sane.
What questions lead us to practical solutions.

― Peter McWilliams

 

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“Most therapists approach clients from the perspective of creating change. They would benefit themselves greatly if they would approach clients from the perspective of not creating resistance and let change occur as a natural result of the client exploring his or her own world.”

~ Clifton Mitchell, PhD

 

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Solution Focused Brief Therapy Telemental Health Suicide Intervention - PMC

One of the innumerable impacts of the coronavirus has been the change in how individuals provide services. For mental health providers, the pandemic required a sudden shift from in person to online service delivery. As therapists learn and embrace a ...

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New SF practitioners may fool themselves into thinking that their client’s problem talk should be avoided. On the contrary, it can be within the problem talk that we are able to listen and select what clients want. This process can solidify the therapeutic relationship through joining while also honoring the change process, noticing a shift.

Another misunderstanding about SFBT is the assumption that SF language is problem solving. Understandably so. Solution focused therapy, however, is deliberate and persistent co-constructive conversations about what the clients want because of therapy, despite their presenting concern. To clarify, it is not ignoring the problem, it is coming back to it in a way that shifts our relationship with our own agency to do something different.

 

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A Language of Hope: The Top Ten Solution-Focused Translations · Solution-Focused Therapy Institute

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"Cope is one letter away from hope."

 

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Cope is one letter away from Hope: Solution-Focused Safety Assessment (SFSA) · Solution-Focused Therapy Institute

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“There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. We should ask the first kind.”

~ Quote from Nobel physicist Isaac Isador Rabi

 

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Source: Amazon product

 

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Advanced Techniques for Solution-Focused Counseling

The client is told and asked, “The situation is very volatile. Between now and the next time, attempt to think about why the situation is not worse.”

Rationale: This task is given if the client is in severe crisis.

 

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Theories of Counseling: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy - ppt download

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Basic Tenets Developed mostly by Steve De Shazer, Insoo Berg, Eve Lipchek and Michele Weiner-Davis. It looks at the positive side of problems and what works. It can be used in a variety of settings with a variety of problems. “Copyright © Allyn & Bacon 2004”

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