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Worksheets8 - Solution-Focused Approach
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 12mins
What are some of the goals of SFBT?
Client is encouraged to believe that positive changes are possible.
Encourages goals to reach desired outcome.
Encourages the client to develop a vision of a alternative future.
All of the above
What is one primary focus of Solution Focused Brief Therapy?
Health, Strengths and Coping Abilities
Problems and Deficits
True or False: SFBT is a future oriented, goal directed approach to solving human problems of living.
True
False
True or False: SFBT is focused on finding solutions not problems and therefore does not look at a person in the sense of being maladjusted.
True
False
What is the most important role of the counselor for SFBT?
Consultant & Collaborator
To establish rapport
Nonjudgmental
Cultivate Empathy
Who founded/developed the SFBT theory?
Steve de Shazer
Insoo Kim Berg
Insoo Kim Berg & Steve de Shazer
What is the appropriate client population for SFBT?
Individuals, couples, family therapy, and group therapy
Clients with more extreme conditions such as schizophrenia or clients with major depressive disorders
Often times, what do counselors in SFBT as their clients to reflect upon?
Focus on the present and future
Focus on the here and now
Focus on the past and present
Focus on the past and future
The philosophy behind SF approach is _____________ .
social constructionism
social Destructionism
Constructionism argues that meaning is constructed through ________ & ________
social interaction
negotiation
It is vain to do with more what can be achieved with fewer
Occam’s principle
Ocama’s principle
An amazing treasure house of bright ideas and a repository of a lifetime’s solution-memories
Human brain
Human lungs
According to SFT:
Human beings are ____________ and ____________ of the problems presented by their social environment
creative
flexible solvers
Problematic
____________ perceptions and experiences are privileged above those of the professional
Client’s
Counselor's
–SF approach assumes that clients:
–Can construct solutions with minimal, if any, analysis of their problems
–Have many resources and competencies, many of which they are unaware of. Most people do not use a fraction of their potential
–Are more likely to be open to possibilities for change if they are connected to experiences of ‘success’ rather than failure
–Have many ideas about their preferred future
–Are already engaging in constructive and helpful actions
SF approach does not focus on :
Conceptualization of Psychological Disturbance and Health
Acquisition of Psychological Disturbance
Perpetuation of Psychological Disturbance
Problem Island or Problem Talk
1.Problem-free talk
2.Being brief
3.Competence seeking
4.Building on exceptions/parts of the miracle
5.Scaling
6.The miracle question
7.Between session activity
–A noticing experiment
–A pretending experiment
8.Feedback
Major Therapeutic Strategies
Major Therapeutic Techniques
1.Pre-session change
2.Looking for exceptions
3.The miracle question-therapeutic technique
4.Scaling
5.Closing question
6.Exception question
7.Coping question
8.Acknowledge the problem
9.Positive feedback about client achievements
10.Link to goals
11.Negotiate next step
12.Return visits
Major Therapeutic Strategies
Major Therapeutic Techniques
The Change Process in SF Approach:
___________The client does not believe that they need to change anything
Visitor
Complainant
Customer
The Change Process in SF Approach:
________ The client agrees that there is a problem but sees the solution as lying elsewhere, often in someone else changing their behavior
Visitor
Complainant
Customer
The Change Process in SF Approach:
A relationship in which the client recognizes that there is a problem over which there is some control and is ready to do something about it
Visitor
Complainant
Customer
