CYC 401 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Steve De Shazer, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Active Listening
3 Mar 2017
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Created solution focused therapy in early 1980s by steve de shazer and insoo kim. Incorporated milton erickson"s work of language, metaphor, and hypnosis. Focused on solutions rather than problems, what have gone right in client"s live rather than what has gone wrong. Even when people are not doing well, pieces of solutions are happening. Find out what client is doing that works, which becomes building blocks of therapy. Talk about positive parts of client"s life = improved self-worth, optimistic thinking, beings change process starting with existing strengths and resources. People have the ability to work through their own problems. People are free to make choices and not victims of their genetics or environment. Counselling should be shifted to positive outlook. Clients do better with a present and future counseling orientation. Do not need to have specifics, causes, functions of problem in order to resolve it. Develop a working alliance to attack the problem.
