The Art of Solution Focused Therapy
HOW DOES SOLUTION-FOCUSED THERAPY WORK?
Solution focused therapy is based on the premise that people know what is needed to improve their lives at any given time, and with the proper support and guidance, they can be the architects of the best-suited solutions. Rather than intensive work on early life experiences, or the addiction-related problems that brought them to treatment, this modality focuses on how to orchestrate the best possible outcomes in the present moment.
This method encourages change and calls on a patientโs inherent capacity rather than focusing on the problem itself. It attempts to minimize the overall time spent in therapy and to reduce a patientโs current suffering by stimulating their current resources to arrive at answers available to them in the present. SFBT works well on its own, as well as in conjunction with other treatment modalities.