Postmodern Approaches

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy

Key Points:

• Solution Focus
• Positive Orientation
• looking for what is working, not problem-focused

Therapy Goals:
Goals are unique to each client and are constructed by the client to create a richer future. Solution-oriented therapy offers several forms of goals: changing the viewing of a situation, changing the doing of a problematic situation, and tapping clients strengths and resources.

Therapeutic Thechniques:

• Pretherapy Change
• Exception Questions
• The Miracle Question

• Scaling Questions
• Formula First Session Talk
• Feedback to Client
• Terminating

Narrative Therapy 

Key Points:

• Narrative Focus
• Role of Stories
• Listening with an Open Mind

Therapy Goals:
A general goal is to invite people to describe their experiences in new and fresh language to open up new vistas of what is possible.

Therapeutic Techniques:

•  Questions and More Questions
• Externalization and Deconstruction
• Search for Unique Outcomes
• Alternative Stories and Reauthoring
• Documenting the Evidence