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Groups for Children

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Groups for Children

Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT) is a kind of counselling or psychotherapy. The

therapy tends to focus on solutions to an issue or problem and discover the strengths and

resources an individual possesses instead of focusing on the problem like most traditional

talking therapies do (Greenberg et al., 2001). SFT concentrates on the problem that is

affecting a person currently by devising means that can enable the person to move forward by

providing a solution to the problem or the issue.

There are numerous advantages of using solution focused therapy with children and

adolescents. SFT is helpful to children and teens with self-esteem issues, anxiety, and

depression. Research has shown that SFT has helped improve the classroom behavior of

children and adolescents (De Shazer et al., 2021). Besides, studies have also shown that SFT

has been effective in helping reduce anxiety, mood related disorders, and depression among

adolescents and children (De Shazer et al., 2021). It is because the therapy tends to work

towards finding solutions to a problem. For that reason, SFT enables patients identify things

that they are doing well despite the challenge that they are experiencing.

The two techniques that is used by Solution Focused Therapy are miracle questions and

exception questions. Miracle question is a technique that is used by therapists to enable

patients think outside the box whereby patients are asked to think or consider life without the

issue they experiencing whereby a miracle happens and the issue is gone (Lipchik, 2002). On

the other hand, exception question is where patients are asked to state times when things were

different for them (Lipchik, 2002). Clients are asked to identify times when the problem is

issue was not much of a problem to their life. I believe that the two techniques are effective

because they ensure that patients consider issues from their perspectives and offer feedback

on how they feel about the problem.

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References

De Shazer, S., Dolan, Y., Korman, H., Trepper, T., McCollum, E., & Berg, I. K.

(2021). More than miracles: The state of the art of solution-focused brief therapy.

Routledge.

Greenberg, G., Ganshorn, K., & Danilkewich, A. (2001). Solution-focused therapy.

Counseling model for busy family physicians. Canadian Family Physician, 47(11),

2289-2295.

Lipchik, E. (2002). Beyond technique in solution-focused therapy: Working with emotions

and the therapeutic relationship. Guilford Press.