The Art of Solution Focused Therapy

What is Solution-Focused Therapy?

Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) is a unique, goal-directed therapy aimed at helping clients regain autonomy by determining and achieving their own goals. Solution focused therapists encourage clients to focus on solutions, not problems, and help clients effectively plan how to reach their goals. Unlike other therapies, SFT holds an abiding belief in clients' abilities to know what is best for them, rather than have a therapist tell them.

Why this book?

This book not only provides an overview of the Solution Focused therapy model, its basic tenets, and theories; it also presents intimate interviews with expert practitioners-all of whom use SFT in their own practice.

To this end, the book offers a wealth of insight into the theory and practice of SFT, to help practitioners decide whether SFT is right for them and their clients. These experts offer details of their apprehensions, goals, breakthroughs, and overall experiences with the therapy. The team of expert contributors includes Eve Lipchik, Yvonne Dolan, Alasdair Macdonald, Thorana Nelson, and many more.

Questions the experts address include:

• How did you discover that SFT was the model that fit your clients' needs?
• What characteristics of this model drew you towards it?
• How has SFT impacted your personal life?
• What is it about SFT that makes it so effective?
• What are your favorite cases and how did they affect your work as a therapist?

Elliott Connie, MA, LPC, is a licensed professional counselor who has spent his entire counseling career working with individuals, couples, families, and groups. He founded and oversees the Solution Focused Training Institute, which holds multiple training sessions on this approach, including an annual symposium, workshops, and business consultations. He maintains a full private practice with couples, children, and families. He is also a trainer for the University of Texas-Arlington Certificate Program in Solution-Focused Counseling.Linda Metcalf, MEd, PhD, LMFT, LPC, is currently a Professor of Graduate Counseling Programs at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas where she created a COAMFTE accredited doctoral program in marriage and family therapy. She is past president of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and has been president of the Texas Association for Marriage and Family Therapy twice. She is the creator of the Solution Focused Schools Unlimited podcast and the free Solution Focused Connection webinar, created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT) is a brief, goal-directed therapy that utilizes questions and scales to help clients determine their goals, and then reveal the behaviors needed for them to achieve or maintain further progress. Unlike other therapies, it holds an abiding belief in clients' abilities to know what is best for them (rather than have a therapist tell them) and to effectively plan how to get there. This book serves as an introduction to SFT, with in depth explanations of the origins, tenets, and common techniques associated with SFT. Experienced practitioners, all of whom use an SFT approach, present detailed narratives discussing what led them to select the SFT model. Each narrative addresses the following questions: how they discovered that Solution-Focused Therapy was the model that fit their clients' needs; how utilizing Solution Focused Therapy has impacted their work with clients; and, key personality traits that are shared amongst Solution Focused Practitioners.

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