They expanded upon the findings of Watzlawick, Weakland and Fisch ( 1974), who believed that the attempted solution would often perpetuate the problem, rather than solving it and that an understanding of the origins of the problem is not (always) necessary. SFBT was developed during the 1980s by de Shazer and Berg. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) supports this evolution and abandons the ‘medical model,’ in which the therapist’s role can be likened to that of the aforementioned restaurant manager. The therapist adopts an enabling role, coaching the client in exploring his own way of solving the problems experienced, thereby using his own competence to the greatest extent possible. Positive psychology emphasizes the client’s strengths and the supposition that happiness is not the result of having the right genes or mere chance, but is to be found through identifying and using the strong points that the client already possesses, such as friendliness, originality, humor, optimism and generosity.Ĭlients become increasingly emancipated. Seligman, the founding father of positive psychology, introduced the term learned optimism (Seligman, 2002). The focus shifts from mental illness to mental health.
There is a process of patients becoming clients and of using facilitators rather than traditional practitioners. Within psychotherapy there is an evolution from lengthy to short forms of treatment and from cure to prevention.
What are the chances of you leaving the restaurant feeling satisfied? Once everything is finished, a meal is served to you that you did not order, but that the manager claims is good for you and has helped other hungry people. But in addition the manager wants you to complete some questionnaires about hunger (and perhaps about other issues that the manager finds important). He asks you questions regarding your hunger: ‘How hungry are you? For how long have you been preoccupied with this feeling? Were you hungry in the past? What role did hunger play at home with your family or with other relatives? What disadvantages and possibly advantages does hunger have for you?’ After this, having become even hungrier, you ask if you can now eat. After having waited for some time, you are invited to take a seat and the manager introduces himself. Suppose you are hungry and decide to eat in a restaurant.
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