SolutionZone International Forum
There is no exercise better for the heart than helping others
About Solution Zone International Forum
Solution Zone International Forum
was created by David L. Johns, LMHC, NBCCH in 2006 as a forum for the exchange of information and the promotion of Solution Focused Therapy. This site has a different name but its origin was in 1986 when The Central Florida Psychology Forum BBS was established to promote the practice of psychology and to create a worldwide network of therapists and consumers to exchange information and provide a forum for bringing to awareness the existence of newer, elegantly applied, brief and efficacious psychotherapeutic methods to the forefront. Practitioners from all theoretical and practical backgrounds came together to legitimize what used to be thought of as "snake oil" and "voodoo" therapy. Practitioners from 37 different countries expressed a desire to find better and more effective, brief and "magical" ways to help clients. The new psychotherapies gained in popularity with an emerging managed care culture. Though thought of as a departure from "conventional" therapies taught in the best of universities, these methods proved to be far from palliative and far from being the "sugar pill" of psychotherapy.....I think with all the research done in the last few years it is hard to deny that SFT is now EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE! We have arrived.
I bring to you back all the wisdom of the thousands of psycotherapy practitioners and consumers from the past two decades who helped spark the paradigm shift that has brought a new way of thinking about change.....something many have come to embrace as a new philosophy - a new way of living life.........
What is Solution-Focused Brief Therapy?
As the name suggest, it is about being brief and focusing on solutions, rather than on problems. We learned long time ago that when there is a problem, many professionals spend a great deal of time thinking, talking, and analyzing the problems, while the suffering goes on. It occurred to a team of mental health professionals including Steve deShazer and Insoo Kim Berg that so much time, resources, and energies are spent on talking about problems, rather than thinking about what might help us to get to solutions, thus bringing on realistic, reasonable relief as quickly as possible.
We discovered that problems do not happen all the time; even the most chronic problems have period or times when the problem does not occur or less intense. By studying these times when problems is less severe or even absent, we discovered that people do many positive things that they are not fully aware of. By bringing these small successes to their awareness, and helping them to repeat these successful things they do when the problem is not there or less severe, their life becomes better and people become more confident about themselves.
And of course there is nothing like experiencing small successes to become more hopeful about themselves and their life, and when they are more hopeful, they become more interested in creating a better life for themselves and their families. Thus we become more hopeful about our future and want to achieve more.
Because these solutions are already within the person that only comes out sporadically, repeating these successful behaviors is easier than learning a whole new set of solutions that worked for someone else, but may not suit the person who has to make the changes. Thus, brief part was born. Since it takes less effort, we can become more eager to repeat the successful behaviors, thus it is easier to embrace the changes.
SFT (Solution-FocusedTherapy) has taken almost 30 years to develop what it is today and it is simple to learn, but difficult to practice because our old learning gets in the way. The model continues to evolve and change, and is increasingly taken out of the therapy or counseling rooms and is applied wherever people want to get along with, or to work together, no matter what the setting and who is involved.
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