December 1st 2022. World Aids Day. I started my ‘professional’ life working in HIV prevention back in 1991. It was a hard time in so many ways, and before I had started learning about SFBT. Amongst the sadness, anger and despair were many communities full of love and hope.
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Solution Focused Brief Therapy case notes
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I really, really, really like to write positive posts, this one may not appear so positive, though it does have a happy ending. This is a topic I have written on before in journal articles and on websites, message boards and so on. I am re visiting the topic as there seems to be a…
Our job as SF practitioners, whether as therapists or supervisors, coaches etc. is to listen, listen really hard to the last thing that the person you are seeing has said. Then, and only then can you ask a useful question. Supposing the person you are seeing says “I don’t know”….this phrase strikes fear into the…
1. If you do not ask helpful questions, you may well not get helpful answers. “How can I help you?” This is not a helpful SF question. For a start it assumes that the SF practitioner has some answers and will be the catalyst for change. It also takes some of the autonomy and direction…
Is SF a strengths based approach? Well, that may seem an easy question to answer, and for many people in and outside SF the obvious answer would be ‘yes’. Ok for something to be strength based we would need to focus on strengths, we would need to focus on resilience, and competencies, resources etc. so…