Effectiveness Of The Solution Focused Treatment Model

Description of the Problem Jordan Smith (fictitious name) is a nineteen year-old boy who is currently at Broward Health Medical Center. The mother is reporting serious behavioral problems. The mother said she will keep Jordan in her home if he quits smoking cannabis and comes home before dark. Jordan has previous admission for history of schizophrenia since the age of sixteen and has history of noncompliance with treatment. Recently, in the last few months he has been hospitalized numerous times, at least two times in the last month. Reason for recent admission is that Jordan was smoking cannabis and skateboarded in front of a car. He was hit by the car and did not report it to the mother. Mother found it odd and brought him to the emergency
Therefor I will be using Solution-Focused therapy with Jordan. I will be exploring in depth how this theory works effectively with the patient. The patient is the expert in their own life and able to define their goals. One of the areas in which I will show how it works effectively is by describing the effectiveness of the theory with Jordan, providing questions that can be used to assess my client and exploring the social worker/client relationship. After focusing and explaining the areas mentioned above I will develop an intervention plan, goals and objectives to help my client work through his presenting
Solution focus therapy fits nicely with crisis stabilization and the pressure from insurance companies and government agencies to provide effective treatment in a briefer time frame. Solution focus therapy treatment is patient-centered empowering and goal oriented. The focus for each patient is to establish realistic goals. Solution-focused therapy is relatively new, therefore its effectiveness has not been extensively researched. A number of experimental, quasi-experimental, single subject, and pre-experimental designs, however, provide evidence of its utility with a variety of client populations at the individual, couple, family, and group levels according to Walsh (2010). Some of the disadvantages to Solution-focused Treatment is that critics say it’s too simplistic and does not have enough empirical research to support it. It also does not attend to the fact that some problems may indeed need to be faced in order for the patient to change. As for effectiveness Solution-focus therapy provides a consistent approach to the unit’s