Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques
Small steps can lead to big changes. The solution is not necessarily related to the problem. The language for solution development is different from that needed to describe a problem. No problem happens all the time; there are always exceptions that can be utilized. The future is both created and negotiable.
Harvey Ratner • Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques
If it doesn’t work, don’t do it again. Do something different.
Harvey Ratner • Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques
Once you know what works, do more of it.
Harvey Ratner • Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Harvey Ratner • Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques
Successful work depends on knowing what the client wants from the therapy. Once this is established, the task of therapy is to find the quickest way there.
Harvey Ratner • Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques
Attempting to understand the cause of a problem is not a necessary or particularly useful step towards resolution. Indeed, sometimes discussing the problem can be actively unhelpful to clients.
Harvey Ratner • Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques
This requires the therapist to accept that while therapists are experts on asking useful questions, they are not experts on clients’ lives.
Harvey Ratner • Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques
Rather than the therapist having the job of assessing and diagnosing the client so as to arrive at the correct advice or prescription, the client and therapist work jointly on the client’s future.