What is Solution-Focused Therapy?

Written By Samantha Camera

Created by Steve de Shazer & Insoo Kim Berg in the 1970s.

This theory was created to be a brief therapy and to help clients focus on solutions rather than the problem.

"is a short-term goal-focused evidence-based therapeutic approach, which incorporates positive psychology principles and practices, and which helps clients change by constructing solutions rather than focusing on problems." (What is solution-focused therapy? 2022)

What Questions does a Solution Focused Therapist ask?

  • What would it look like if the problem didn't exist anymore?

  • What have you attempted?

  • What has worked?

Resources

What is solution-focused therapy?. SolutionFocused Therapy Institute. (2022a, April 21). https://solutionfocused.net/what-is-solution-focused-therapy/

Shazer, S. de. (n.d.). Quotes by Steve De Shazer: A-Z quotes. AZQuotes. https://www.azquotes.com/author/48457-Steve_de_Shazer

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