Cynthia Franklin, Terry S. Trepper, Eric E. McCollum, and Wallace J. Gingerich (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195385724
- eISBN:
- 9780199914586
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195385724.001.0001
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
Therapy is frequently miscast as requiring an enormous amount of time and financial commitment, but helpful, goal-oriented therapy can produce positive results after only a few sessions. ...
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Therapy is frequently miscast as requiring an enormous amount of time and financial commitment, but helpful, goal-oriented therapy can produce positive results after only a few sessions. Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) has been gaining momentum as a powerful therapeutic approach since its inception in the 1980s. By focusing on solutions instead of problems, it asks clients to set concrete goals and to draw upon strengths in their lives that can help bring about the desired change for a preferred future. Chapters review the current state of research on SFBT interventions and illustrate its applications—both proven and promising—with a diverse variety of populations, including domestic violence offenders, troubled and runaway youth, students, adults with substance abuse problems, and clients with schizophrenia. This text also includes a treatment manual, strengths-based and fidelity measures, and detailed descriptions on how to best apply SFBT to underscore the strengths, skills, and resources that clients may unknowingly possess.Less
Therapy is frequently miscast as requiring an enormous amount of time and financial commitment, but helpful, goal-oriented therapy can produce positive results after only a few sessions. Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) has been gaining momentum as a powerful therapeutic approach since its inception in the 1980s. By focusing on solutions instead of problems, it asks clients to set concrete goals and to draw upon strengths in their lives that can help bring about the desired change for a preferred future. Chapters review the current state of research on SFBT interventions and illustrate its applications—both proven and promising—with a diverse variety of populations, including domestic violence offenders, troubled and runaway youth, students, adults with substance abuse problems, and clients with schizophrenia. This text also includes a treatment manual, strengths-based and fidelity measures, and detailed descriptions on how to best apply SFBT to underscore the strengths, skills, and resources that clients may unknowingly possess.
JACQUELINE CORCORAN
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195154306
- eISBN:
- 9780199864287
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195154306.003.0004
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
This chapter highlights some of the similarities and differences between the three therapeutic models that comprise the strengths- and skills-building approach — solution-focused therapy, ...
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This chapter highlights some of the similarities and differences between the three therapeutic models that comprise the strengths- and skills-building approach — solution-focused therapy, motivational interviewing, and cognitive-behavioral therapy — in terms of the models' stance toward strengths and behavioral change, the client's relationship to the change process, the time needed to enact change, the degree of structure and direction required, and the system level at which change is targeted. As much as possible, client strengths, resources, and motivation are identified, reinforced, and amplified. Cognitive-behavioral skill-building is used to bolster areas where the client has knowledge or skill gaps that seem to interfere with the attainment of their goals. The aim throughout is a collaborative process in which the individual, not the practitioner, is seen as the ultimate expert on his or her life.Less
This chapter highlights some of the similarities and differences between the three therapeutic models that comprise the strengths- and skills-building approach — solution-focused therapy, motivational interviewing, and cognitive-behavioral therapy — in terms of the models' stance toward strengths and behavioral change, the client's relationship to the change process, the time needed to enact change, the degree of structure and direction required, and the system level at which change is targeted. As much as possible, client strengths, resources, and motivation are identified, reinforced, and amplified. Cognitive-behavioral skill-building is used to bolster areas where the client has knowledge or skill gaps that seem to interfere with the attainment of their goals. The aim throughout is a collaborative process in which the individual, not the practitioner, is seen as the ultimate expert on his or her life.
Guy Shennan and Chris Iveson
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195385724
- eISBN:
- 9780199914586
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195385724.003.0107
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
Practice-based evidence has been important to the development of solution focused brief therapy since its inception at the Brief Family Therapy Center (BFTC) in Milwaukee. This chapter illustrates ...
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Practice-based evidence has been important to the development of solution focused brief therapy since its inception at the Brief Family Therapy Center (BFTC) in Milwaukee. This chapter illustrates the importance of using practice-based research data to shape solution focused practices in a clinical setting by chronicling the developments at one clinic, BRIEF, in London, and showing how research data was used there to guide and improve the delivery of solution focused therapy. It also discusses both the challenges of collecting practice-based research data and the benefits and uses of this type of data in a clinical setting.Less
Practice-based evidence has been important to the development of solution focused brief therapy since its inception at the Brief Family Therapy Center (BFTC) in Milwaukee. This chapter illustrates the importance of using practice-based research data to shape solution focused practices in a clinical setting by chronicling the developments at one clinic, BRIEF, in London, and showing how research data was used there to guide and improve the delivery of solution focused therapy. It also discusses both the challenges of collecting practice-based research data and the benefits and uses of this type of data in a clinical setting.
JACQUELINE CORCORAN and JANE HANVEY PHILLIPS
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195154306
- eISBN:
- 9780199864287
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195154306.003.0008
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
This chapter discusses how to apply the strengths- and skills-building model to the problem of depression with an emphasis on solution-focused and cognitive-behavioral therapies. The purpose is to ...
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This chapter discusses how to apply the strengths- and skills-building model to the problem of depression with an emphasis on solution-focused and cognitive-behavioral therapies. The purpose is to empower the client with a focus on what is going well and to take concrete steps to a depression-free future. Specific techniques from solution-focused therapy include the use of idiosyncratic language, normalizing, coping questions, orienting toward the future, exception-finding, externalizing, and scaling. Techniques from cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) include social skill training, feeling identification and management, and cognitive-restructuring. However, a strengths orientation pervades the application of CBT techniques to continue the positive and hopeful thrust of solution-focused therapy to the problem of depression.Less
This chapter discusses how to apply the strengths- and skills-building model to the problem of depression with an emphasis on solution-focused and cognitive-behavioral therapies. The purpose is to empower the client with a focus on what is going well and to take concrete steps to a depression-free future. Specific techniques from solution-focused therapy include the use of idiosyncratic language, normalizing, coping questions, orienting toward the future, exception-finding, externalizing, and scaling. Techniques from cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) include social skill training, feeling identification and management, and cognitive-restructuring. However, a strengths orientation pervades the application of CBT techniques to continue the positive and hopeful thrust of solution-focused therapy to the problem of depression.
Jacqueline Corcoran (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195154306
- eISBN:
- 9780199864287
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195154306.001.0001
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
This book presents an approach to therapeutic contact with clients that capitalizes on people's resilience, strengths, and capacities. The helper works in collaboration with the individual to ...
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This book presents an approach to therapeutic contact with clients that capitalizes on people's resilience, strengths, and capacities. The helper works in collaboration with the individual to identify and amplify these capacities to resolve problems and improve quality of life. Clients are empowered to find their own answers and solutions that will fit their particular worldview and their unique strengths (De Jong & Miller, 1995). These principles are operationalized through solution-focused therapy and motivational interviewing. The helper also identifies areas in which clients can use education on how to meet more effectively life's challenges. A focus on coping skills is represented by cognitive-behavioral therapy. These theoretical approaches are woven together for the purpose of maximizing a person's ability to enhance the strengths they bring and also learn new skills that can help them. The resultant strengths- and skills-building model is applied, throughout the book, to various problems and populations that helping practitioners may encounter.Less
This book presents an approach to therapeutic contact with clients that capitalizes on people's resilience, strengths, and capacities. The helper works in collaboration with the individual to identify and amplify these capacities to resolve problems and improve quality of life. Clients are empowered to find their own answers and solutions that will fit their particular worldview and their unique strengths (De Jong & Miller, 1995). These principles are operationalized through solution-focused therapy and motivational interviewing. The helper also identifies areas in which clients can use education on how to meet more effectively life's challenges. A focus on coping skills is represented by cognitive-behavioral therapy. These theoretical approaches are woven together for the purpose of maximizing a person's ability to enhance the strengths they bring and also learn new skills that can help them. The resultant strengths- and skills-building model is applied, throughout the book, to various problems and populations that helping practitioners may encounter.
Cynthia Franklin, Johnny S. Kim, and Stephen J. Tripodi
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- April 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195370577
- eISBN:
- 9780199893386
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195370577.003.0004
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families
The U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences reports that high school dropout is a continuing problem for schools. The percentage of students who do not graduate from high ...
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The U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences reports that high school dropout is a continuing problem for schools. The percentage of students who do not graduate from high school at the end of a 13-year program of study ranges from 11% to 28% for certain at-risk student populations. Some research suggests that high school dropouts are more likely to abuse drugs, be unemployed, or be in jail. School social workers and other student support services professionals need effective interventions that can engage students and can develop a quick change in students’ behaviors and attitudes. Since the 1990s, school social workers and counselors have been experimenting with solution-focused, brief therapy (SFBT) to assist students with academic and behavioral problems. SFBT developed out of family systems theory and social construction family practice. This chapter describes the steps in conducting SFBT and how it can be applied with students who are at risk of dropping out of high school.Less
The U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences reports that high school dropout is a continuing problem for schools. The percentage of students who do not graduate from high school at the end of a 13-year program of study ranges from 11% to 28% for certain at-risk student populations. Some research suggests that high school dropouts are more likely to abuse drugs, be unemployed, or be in jail. School social workers and other student support services professionals need effective interventions that can engage students and can develop a quick change in students’ behaviors and attitudes. Since the 1990s, school social workers and counselors have been experimenting with solution-focused, brief therapy (SFBT) to assist students with academic and behavioral problems. SFBT developed out of family systems theory and social construction family practice. This chapter describes the steps in conducting SFBT and how it can be applied with students who are at risk of dropping out of high school.
Mary Beth Harris and Cynthia Franklin
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195385724
- eISBN:
- 9780199914586
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195385724.003.0094
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
This chapter describes the solution-focused Taking Charge (TC) intervention, a school-based program designed to help adolescent mothers. Taking Charge is a multimodal, brief cognitive behavioral ...
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This chapter describes the solution-focused Taking Charge (TC) intervention, a school-based program designed to help adolescent mothers. Taking Charge is a multimodal, brief cognitive behavioral curriculum that was developed within solution-focused and developmental frameworks, utilizing the strengths, resources, life goals, and developmental tasks of adolescent mothers. The goals of the curriculum are to construct a solution-focused approach that can help adolescent mothers develop the solutions they need in order to achieve good outcomes in four targeted life domains: the mother's education, social support/personal relationships, parenting, and employment/career preparation. The chapter describes the importance of these four life domains to the future outcomes of adolescent mothers and how the major components of the solution-focused TC intervention help adolescent women who are pregnant and parenting develop their own goals and solutions in these areas. It also highlights how the TC program was created, using research evidence on what works to help adolescent mothers be self-sufficient, and describes the research studies where the program was tested in schools with adolescents.Less
This chapter describes the solution-focused Taking Charge (TC) intervention, a school-based program designed to help adolescent mothers. Taking Charge is a multimodal, brief cognitive behavioral curriculum that was developed within solution-focused and developmental frameworks, utilizing the strengths, resources, life goals, and developmental tasks of adolescent mothers. The goals of the curriculum are to construct a solution-focused approach that can help adolescent mothers develop the solutions they need in order to achieve good outcomes in four targeted life domains: the mother's education, social support/personal relationships, parenting, and employment/career preparation. The chapter describes the importance of these four life domains to the future outcomes of adolescent mothers and how the major components of the solution-focused TC intervention help adolescent women who are pregnant and parenting develop their own goals and solutions in these areas. It also highlights how the TC program was created, using research evidence on what works to help adolescent mothers be self-sufficient, and describes the research studies where the program was tested in schools with adolescents.
Johhny Kim, Michael Kelly, and Cynthia Franklin
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190607258
- eISBN:
- 9780190607289
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190607258.001.0001
- Subject:
- Social Work, Research and Evaluation
Teachers, administrators, and students face many challenges in schools, yet schools are also places of solutions, strengths, and successes. The second edition of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy in ...
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Teachers, administrators, and students face many challenges in schools, yet schools are also places of solutions, strengths, and successes. The second edition of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy in Schools offers a practical guide that shows school social workers how to harness the solutions that are already happening in their schools by applying the principles of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT). With its emphasis on strengths and short-term treatment, SFBT is a potentially powerful tool for school professionals to add to their repertoires. A solution-focused school social worker can help students, particularly those who are harder to engage, think about ways to focus on what’s working and how they can change their lives in positive ways. This second edition is part of the School Social Work Association of America Oxford Workshop Series and has been updated with new research and clinical practice information. New to this edition is a more thorough example of how to use SFBT within the Response-to-Intervention (RtI) framework with case examples demonstrating innovate ways. It also includes five new clinical chapters called “SFBT in Action.” These new chapters cover five of the most common student problems school social workers encounter in their jobs. Each of these new chapters provides an overview of the particular problem both nationally and in school settings and describe risk and protective factors. Along with a discussion on why SFBT is a useful approach for that particular problem, case examples are also provided illustrating how to use many of the specific solution-focused techniques for them.Less
Teachers, administrators, and students face many challenges in schools, yet schools are also places of solutions, strengths, and successes. The second edition of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy in Schools offers a practical guide that shows school social workers how to harness the solutions that are already happening in their schools by applying the principles of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT). With its emphasis on strengths and short-term treatment, SFBT is a potentially powerful tool for school professionals to add to their repertoires. A solution-focused school social worker can help students, particularly those who are harder to engage, think about ways to focus on what’s working and how they can change their lives in positive ways. This second edition is part of the School Social Work Association of America Oxford Workshop Series and has been updated with new research and clinical practice information. New to this edition is a more thorough example of how to use SFBT within the Response-to-Intervention (RtI) framework with case examples demonstrating innovate ways. It also includes five new clinical chapters called “SFBT in Action.” These new chapters cover five of the most common student problems school social workers encounter in their jobs. Each of these new chapters provides an overview of the particular problem both nationally and in school settings and describe risk and protective factors. Along with a discussion on why SFBT is a useful approach for that particular problem, case examples are also provided illustrating how to use many of the specific solution-focused techniques for them.
Elliott E. Connie
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- December 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190678784
- eISBN:
- 9780190678814
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190678784.003.0001
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
Over the past two decades, solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) has become a popular therapeutic model for marriage and family therapist, professional counselors, and social work educators and ...
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Over the past two decades, solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) has become a popular therapeutic model for marriage and family therapist, professional counselors, and social work educators and practitioners. This chapter will provide a historical overview of how SFBT was developed inductively from a multidisciplinary team of clinicians working at the Mental Research Institute in the 1970s, the development of the Brief Family Therapy Center in the 1980s by de Shazer and Kim-Berg, and the development of the Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Association in the 2000s. This chapter will also cover the basic tenets of SFBT, an overview of the process of a SFBT session, and serve as an introduction to the rest of the bookLess
Over the past two decades, solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) has become a popular therapeutic model for marriage and family therapist, professional counselors, and social work educators and practitioners. This chapter will provide a historical overview of how SFBT was developed inductively from a multidisciplinary team of clinicians working at the Mental Research Institute in the 1970s, the development of the Brief Family Therapy Center in the 1980s by de Shazer and Kim-Berg, and the development of the Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Association in the 2000s. This chapter will also cover the basic tenets of SFBT, an overview of the process of a SFBT session, and serve as an introduction to the rest of the book
Howard Kirschenbaum
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199972180
- eISBN:
- 9780199333325
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199972180.003.0010
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
This chapter explores how values clarification is similar to and different from a number of different approaches to counseling and psychotherapy. By comparing and contrasting values clarification to ...
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This chapter explores how values clarification is similar to and different from a number of different approaches to counseling and psychotherapy. By comparing and contrasting values clarification to these approaches, further insight and understanding is gained about values clarification. The other approaches discussed are: person-centered counseling and psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, reality therapy – choice theory, existential therapy, individual psychology, solution-focused brief therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, narrative therapy, motivational interviewing, appreciative inquiry, life coaching, and positive psychologyLess
This chapter explores how values clarification is similar to and different from a number of different approaches to counseling and psychotherapy. By comparing and contrasting values clarification to these approaches, further insight and understanding is gained about values clarification. The other approaches discussed are: person-centered counseling and psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, reality therapy – choice theory, existential therapy, individual psychology, solution-focused brief therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, narrative therapy, motivational interviewing, appreciative inquiry, life coaching, and positive psychology
Adam Froerer, Jacqui von Cziffra-Bergs, Johnny Kim, and Elliott Connie (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- December 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780190678784
- eISBN:
- 9780190678814
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190678784.001.0001
- Subject:
- Social Work, Health and Mental Health
This book is a comprehensive overview of how solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) can be used as a treatment approach for working with clients managing various forms of trauma. This book includes an ...
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This book is a comprehensive overview of how solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) can be used as a treatment approach for working with clients managing various forms of trauma. This book includes an overview of SFBT with its basic tenets and a description of the current research supporting SFBT as an evidence-based practice. This is followed by a comparison of how SFBT clinicians may approach trauma cases differently than clinicians from other therapeutic approaches. The bulk of the book includes various chapters contributed by skilled SFBT clinicians, with differing clinical expertise, illustrating SFBT as it is applied to different traumatic experiences/clinical cases. This book is the first solution-focused book to comprehensively discuss how traumatized clients can be helped to develop a unique preferred future and move toward healing and health. The distinguishing feature of this book lies not only in its unique approach to trauma but also in the outstanding contributors from various specialties in the field of trauma and SFBT: These contributors will share their knowledge and describe their strength-based, resiliency focus of applying SFBT in different traumatic circumstances.Less
This book is a comprehensive overview of how solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) can be used as a treatment approach for working with clients managing various forms of trauma. This book includes an overview of SFBT with its basic tenets and a description of the current research supporting SFBT as an evidence-based practice. This is followed by a comparison of how SFBT clinicians may approach trauma cases differently than clinicians from other therapeutic approaches. The bulk of the book includes various chapters contributed by skilled SFBT clinicians, with differing clinical expertise, illustrating SFBT as it is applied to different traumatic experiences/clinical cases. This book is the first solution-focused book to comprehensively discuss how traumatized clients can be helped to develop a unique preferred future and move toward healing and health. The distinguishing feature of this book lies not only in its unique approach to trauma but also in the outstanding contributors from various specialties in the field of trauma and SFBT: These contributors will share their knowledge and describe their strength-based, resiliency focus of applying SFBT in different traumatic circumstances.
Lorenn Walker, Cheri Tarutani, and Diana McKibben
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780199366989
- eISBN:
- 9780190625238
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199366989.003.0015
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families, Social Policy
Hawai’i has been experimenting with a restorative reentry planning process for incarcerated people who are accountable for their harmful behavior and imprisonment, and who want to make amends with ...
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Hawai’i has been experimenting with a restorative reentry planning process for incarcerated people who are accountable for their harmful behavior and imprisonment, and who want to make amends with their children, other harmed loved ones, and the community at large. Between 2005 and 2013, 100 circles were provided for 494 participants including approximately 42 children aged 4-28. This evaluation looked at the “healing” effects of the circles on children. Healing was operationalized by rating the children’s ability to move past the trauma of losing their parent to incarceration. A scale of one to five was developed to quantify subjects’ self-perceived changes after the circle intervention. Open-ended questions concerning healing were also asked. The evaluation yielded promising indications that the reentry circles increase healing for children. They provide a powerful participatory arena for children in making decisions regarding their parents' release from prison. This paper describes research findings, and identifies how the circles make child participation meaningful through characteristics of restorative justice.Less
Hawai’i has been experimenting with a restorative reentry planning process for incarcerated people who are accountable for their harmful behavior and imprisonment, and who want to make amends with their children, other harmed loved ones, and the community at large. Between 2005 and 2013, 100 circles were provided for 494 participants including approximately 42 children aged 4-28. This evaluation looked at the “healing” effects of the circles on children. Healing was operationalized by rating the children’s ability to move past the trauma of losing their parent to incarceration. A scale of one to five was developed to quantify subjects’ self-perceived changes after the circle intervention. Open-ended questions concerning healing were also asked. The evaluation yielded promising indications that the reentry circles increase healing for children. They provide a powerful participatory arena for children in making decisions regarding their parents' release from prison. This paper describes research findings, and identifies how the circles make child participation meaningful through characteristics of restorative justice.
