Where to put the emphasis?
Exploring the range of possibilities in the simple question 'How did you do that?', Evan George highlights some significant changes in the way that Solution Focused Therapy is conceptualised.
Ups and downs, in and outs, strengths and weaknesses . . .pros and cons. It is hardly surprising that on solution focused courses participants are lead to ask about the disadvantages of using solution focused brief therapy.
As is often the case disadvantages tend to be the converse of and closely related to advantages. Some of the disadvantages of using solution focused brief therapy can be summarised as follows:
Workers should think hard before espousing this approach. It is tough and demanding and just like a virus, once in the system it will never go away again. In fact for anyone reading this it might already be too late.
With thanks to Jay Haley for his article’ Why a mental health clinic should not use family therapy’.
Evan George
July 2010
Exploring the range of possibilities in the simple question 'How did you do that?', Evan George highlights some significant changes in the way that Solution Focused Therapy is conceptualised.