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Traditional therapy has historically been problem-focused. It has analyzed a person’s problems from where they started and how those problems have an effect on that person’s life. Out of years of observation of family therapy sessions, the theory and applications of solution-focused therapy developed. Let’s explore the therapy, along with techniques and applications of the approach. Before you read on, we thought you might like to This Article Contains: • • • • • • • • • 5 Solution-Focused Therapy Techniques Solution-focused therapy is a type of treatment that highlights a client’s ability to solve problems, rather than why or how the problem was created. It was developed over some time after observations of therapists in a mental health facility in Wisconsin by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg and their colleagues. Like positive psychology, Solution-focused therapy has been successfully applied to a wide variety of client concerns due to its broad application. It has been utilized in a wide variety of The following areas have utilized SFT with varying success: • depression • relationship difficulties • drug and alcohol abuse • eating disorders • anger management • communication difficulties • crisis intervention • incarceration recidivism reduction Goal clarification is an important technique in SFT. A therapist will need to guide a client to envision a future without the problem with which they presented. With coaching and positive questioning, this vision becomes much...

Small groups are an incredible opportunity for school counselors. They allow us to provide personalized intervention to multiple students at once. So why don’t we do them more? Or prioritize them more? Well, elementary group counseling in schools can be a real challenge. Groups with kids can be a lot of work to plan – because you have to have a plan and no one has extra time in their day. It’s also easy for groups to get low priority from both us and our faculty or administrators. And…I think the truth is also that groups are often not as effective as we’d like them to be! Partly because we’re not as intentional as we should be with them. In my seven years as a school counselor, I will fully admit to running several not-so-successful groups. One of the biggest reasons I’ve found small groups to be unsuccessful is that they’re too short term in nature. This effectively means students aren’t getting a high enough “dose” of the intervention we’re providing. And sometimes our group goals and foci are too vague or too broad – we don’t narrow in enough. We just graze the surface of the skills or topics which is the opposite of what these students need. Unfortunately, our groups also can end up inconsistent – things come up and we have to miss sessions, or we just don’t plan well enough and get caught up in something else. And finally, we sometimes try to service kiddos with tier 3 level needs in a tier 2 format. Students that likely need ongoing individual therapy but are unable...