Application
When counseling the client the counselor uses this skill to demonstrate that the clients FEELINGS are being heard
What is Reflecting feeling?
What has the client already been doing to make a difference in their problem.
What is Pre-therapy Change?
The type of relationship the client and counsellor should have throughout the counselling process.
What is a Collaborative Relationship?
This therapy emphasizes the strengths and resiliencies of people by focusing on exceptions to their problems and their conceptualized solutions.
What is Solutions Focused Therapy?
Where zero is never and 10 is always is an example of this.
What is a scale?
The type of questions that are very important to use in the SFT that start with "how"
What are Open-ended questions?
The counsellor asks the client to scale how they feel towards their problem being solved.
What are Scaling Questions?
The counsellor supports the client by giving positive feedback about this.
What is how they have coped so far?
This aspect focuses on being specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and time-limited,
What are SMART Goals?
STF doesn't focus on this as it focuses on the here, now and future.
What is the Past?
This aspect focuses on effective questions that focus attention that is the key to solving problems.
What are Solutions?
The counsellor has the client think about when the problem actually didn't exist.
What is Exception Question?
Goals are established in this specific timeframe of counselling.
What is Early?
The client is an expert on this aspect.
What are their own lives?
This is the type of assumption in which clients already know how to solve their problems and they are healthy, competent individuals.
What are Optimistic Assumptions or competent?
The counsellor doesn't concentrate on the problem, but rather, concentrates on this.
What is a solution?
The best type of therapy the counsellor can give that gets the client on board.
What is Collaborative?
This person has control over the therapeutic process.
Who is the Client?
The founders of the solution focused therapy that was developed in 1980s.
Who is Steve De Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg?
The counsellor asks a particular question that has the client think about how their life would be if the problem disappeared.
What is the Miracle Question?
The counsellor gets the client to realize they are resourceful and competent.
What is Strength Building?
Clients create this on their own.
What are Solutions?
The time frame of the effectiveness of this therapy.
What is brief or short-term ?