Solution focused therapy is most closely associated with Steve de Shazer and colleagues. SF therapists are optimists.Counselors always believe that clients have strengths and resources. SF Therapists believe that clients are often too consumed by their difficulties to remember their strengths. According to SF therapy, it is the counselors role to help the client remember their strengths and help them realize their resources as well. SF counselors strive to maximize client potential, and they remind their clients that change is constantly occurring. SF therapists help clients to set small attainable goals. However it is important to note that it is the clients role to define the goal.
There are various ways to apply this theory to a PK-12 setting. One way is with students who are struggling with bullying. Students may feel like they are small or insignificant. This approach will help the students to focus on his/her strengths and use them to solve their own issue. The student can set small goals, such as ignoring the bully for one day.
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Client is picking battles with husband and sister, and with everything in life. Counselor focuses on what she is doing well. Because the client is picking her battles, she has control. Suggestions for the client to try: pay attention to signals that tell the client that she can win that battle. Pretend that what her husband and sister do doesn't bother her anymore. In accordance with the theory, the counselor is suggesting that the clients language will create and define a new reality.
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