Solution-Focused Counseling
Solutions-focused therapists, in contrast, couldn’t care less about archaeology. They don’t dig around for clues about why you act the way you do. They don’t care about your childhood. All they care about is the solution to the problem at hand.
Dan Heath • Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
1001 Solution-Focused Questions: Handbook for Solution-Focused Interviewing (A Norton Professional Book)
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De Shazer (1994) viewed solution-focused interviewing as a “tap on the shoulder.” The solution-focused professional does not need to push or pull; rather, he or she is always one step behind the client and looking in the same direction. A tap on the shoulder directs the client’s attention and helps him or her look at something from a different angl
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Psychological-mindedness (the propensity to take responsibility for one’s problems and to look within oneself for the solutions) is considered by many to be an important criterion for analyzability. Historically, these criteria have operated to exclude many who might otherwise have seemed to be potential beneficiaries of psychoanalytic treatment. I... See more