One of the functions of a narrative therapist is to ask questions of the client and, based on the answers, generate further questions.

Narrative therapy is a relational and anti-individualistic practice.

Narrative practitioners encourage clients to avoid being reduced by totalizing descriptions of their identity.

Narrative therapists pay more attention to a client’s past than they do to the client’s present and future.

In solution-focused therapy, gathering extensive information about a problem is a necessary step in

helping clients find a solution to the problem.

Solution-focused therapists assist clients in paying attention to the exceptions to their problem patterns.

Solution-focused therapists use questions that presuppose change, posit multiple answers, and remain goal-directed and future-oriented.

In solution-focused therapy, the role of the client is to create solutions based on his or her internal resources.

Because solution-focused therapy is designed to be brief, it is essential that therapists teach clients specific strategies for understanding their problems.