Today we will learn how solutions-focused therapists solve present-day problems without digging up the past and how this can help you with your own change efforts.
In the embedded video, I describe a technique from “Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard” called Solution-Focused Therapy. Solution-Focused Therapy rejects traditional therapy’s focus on the patient’s past and instead focuses directly on the problem at hand. In this way, Solution-Focused Therapy works much like the search for bright spots, but instead of finding individuals who are bright spots, it finds moments in a person’s life that play the same role. These bright spot moments answer the question “What’s working and how can we do more of it?”
In the video, I also describe a five step process from Switch for finding and using bright spots to bring about change. I take you from identifying the bright spot, understanding what non-bright spot or normal behavior looks like, validating the bright spot is not a fake bright spot, contrasting the bright spot’s behavior with normal behavior, and finally, cloning the bright spot.
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