Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Essay

If given the opportunity to choose which techniques with Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, I would like to use within my work setting, I would choose scaling and miracle questioning. “Solution focused brief therapy (SFBT) is a future-focused, goal oriented therapeutic approach to brief therapy” (Corey, 2013, pg 400). Being that solution focus on therapy as being very short term and brief, I feel that it is beneficial within a school setting. Also, there is a greater possibility the school I attend will possess more than 500 students, and it is imperative that I see each student, and make each session as short, adequate, and useful to the client, as possible. With this frame of mind, Solution focused therapy is also beneficial because of its
With this information, I took into account personal views about counseling, which I believe would be beneficial to children. As a former teacher, I realize that students often view their problems as very dramatic, “over the top,” horrific, etc., which all could be true from the perspective of the child. However, individual who are “on the outside looking in,” fail to understand the complication of the problem that the child is facing. Upon a child entering my office from a disruption within class or other problems, there are several steps that I must take into
Solution-focused brief therapy allows me to use this concepts, due to the belief that the client is the expert within his/her problem(s). As the counselor, I would make sure that I focus on the solution rather than the problems, by bring emphasis to “change talk (creating a solution) rather than problem