What is unique about Solution Focused Brief Therapy is that it focuses on the individual’s strengths and possibilities not their limitations and weakness. The therapy has no interested in gaining understanding of the problem, instead this therapy is geared toward helping individual clients look forward and use his/her own strengths to achieve their goals. This therapy also focuses on finding out what individuals are doing that is working and then helps them apply their knowledge to eliminate problems in the shortest amount of time possible.
The type of therapy encourages individuals to move out of analyzing the nature of the problem and how it arose and instead, begin to find solutions and take action to solve it. Therapist that use this type of therapy find it can be instrumental in assisting clients in making a shift from a fixed problem state; to a world with new possibilities. The therapist can encourage and challenge clients to write a different story that can lead to a new ending.
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Another strength is collaborative in it approach to therapy and focus on the clients competencies. The limitations are inexperienced or untrained therapists. These therapists must be able to make assessments, assist clients in formulating specific goals and effectively use appropriate interventions. Finally, the solution focused approach provides therapists with a framework for exploring and utilizing clients existing resources, their strengths, support networks, ideas and theories of how change occurs. Techniques such as the miracle question and exception questions can serve as useful tools for inspiring new ways of thinking and generating ideas for solution building and the establishment of a preferred