My Interaction With Solution-Focused Approach

The nature of the client centred approach is based on the idea that the client is the expert on their life, and have a natural ability to find solutions to their problems. The relationship between the counsellor and client is on a person to person level. By building a good rapport with the client and providing the core conditions of congruence, unconditional positive regard and empathy, the client is able to work through their issues. The counsellor does not solve problems, or give direct advice. The client is encouraged to be confident in their own ability, and not be dependent on others to solve their problems.

The solution-focused theory (SFBT) is not actually theory based, but was pragmatically developed (De Shazer, & Dolan, 2012). ). The reason why the social worker chose this approach during the interview was largely due to the fact that the patient doesn’t have an exact reason for her mild depression or drug abuse problem. The SFBT approach focuses on how a solution may not necessarily directly be related to the problem (De Shazer, & Dolan, 2012). SFBT focuses almost exclusively on the present and the future, the client is an optimistic person who does not believe that her problems are stemming from her past making this approach favorable to the social worker and the patient.

Solution-focused Brief therapy is a postmodern, constructivist advancement that uniquely focuses on the resolution of the concerns of the client. It mainly puts an emphasis on facilitating the clients by identifying and prioritizing the solutions. In short, the solution-focused approach is founded on the ground that "change can occur over a brief period of time" (Hepworth et.al, 2010). Solution-focused Brief Therapy can be represented by three principal components:

My goal is to establish solution focused dialect and move forward successful interventions. The Solution Focused Therapy approach is based on the client having the ability to produce their own solutions to their problems. The therapist’s role is to assist the client in ascertaining their impending ability to create solutions and guide them towards a positive future. This collaborative experience helps clients be the experts in their own lives and simultaneously creates a

Solution-focused brief therapy aims to provide attainable goals for the client which is delivered in an empowering manner, whereas problem-focused therapy immediately targets the problem with a spotlight. SFBT builds upon the clients unknown strengths to determine their future fate. The overall quality of this approach is one that is creative due to its imaginative feature that allows to the client to design alternative realities based on certain questions.

Thus, it is evident that solution focused therapy is focused on the future wellbeing and hopes of the client rather than their past or present situation.

Hannah, Becca, Paige, and I presented on solution-focused theory. We developed and prepared our presentation together, rather than breaking up the work. This was advantageous as each group member knew all of the material, rather than merely understanding one section of material. In the presentation, I gave an overview of the therapy. I discussed that solution-focused therapy incorporates ideas from many disciplines and theories. I also highlighted a few of the key ideas, such as shifting focus from problems to solutions. Later in the presentation, I explained the concept of externalizing and personifying problems, and I described the social worker/client relationship in this theory.

Solution-focused helping focuses on creating solutions rather than on the current problem. The sessions are typical brief and client driven and lead, According to Egan (2010), the helper focuses on common sense and caution against letting theory get in the way of helping the client. In most cases, the helper-as-expert is replaced with the client-as-expert mindset. The helper becomes a consultant, guide, or facilitator by assisting the client to identify and apply existing resources to the temporary and changeable specific problem. In this therapy, it is believed that client has the resources and strengths to resolve complaints. There are four steps for Solution-Focused: First, what does the client want and try to secure that sense of happiness. Second, do not look for pathology. Third, always encourage the client to try something different. Fourth, keep the sessions brief. One criticisms of the approach is that it’s not realistic. People are used to dealing with problems, so this approach might be disorienting to some clients, Egan (2010). It is said that change comes from dealing with problems not ignoring them.

When I first decided to expand my education, it had been so long since I had been to school, and I was very hesitant. I talked at length about my decision with my husband and with his encouragement, decided to enroll but still was not quite sure which degree program to enroll in. I knew that this was something that I had always wanted to do since I obtained my Associates Degree in Nursing, but I did not have the courage, nor did I want to give up the time with my family and children. I second guessed my abilities and my knowledge because it had been so long since I had been in college. Now that my children are about to graduate high school and

During the first half of my Integrated Practicum, I was independent for the most time, applying my critical thinking, decision-making, communication, and research abilities, but I also asked for assistance or support from my Preceptor and CCD if difficult question raised. I followed the CHNC standards of building trusting relationship and demonstrated professional accountability, responsibility, and adaptability in approaching clients, groups, community partners, nurses, peers, and other professionals. I worked collaboratively in teams and fostered growth with other nursing students by sharing knowledge or alternative approaches or offering the topics to explore. I am confident that I am gaining the necessary

Grumpy Hughes Lane. Avery County, North Carolina. July 2017. Situated in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains lies a humble homestead with a paraplegic man and his lovely amicable wife. Their home, a dilapidated nineteen thirties fixer upper, was in desperate need of repair, especially on its exterior, so myself and other youth collaborated to make the Hughes family’s dream of a reliable and dependable home a reality.

Why am I feeling so warily towards this trip? Why now, and never before? Similar questions kept pondering through my mind when boarding the plane that would take us to our home country, Peru. It had been close to five years with the absence of my birthplace, my early childhood. I never realized how my childhood environment differed from my present life, but somehow, this year I felt more aware of where I stood. My parents would tell me to value the luck we had, but I never gave it much thought. Back then, I would consider it but not in depth, until I was smacked with it in the face. Though I didn’t know at the time, I contemplated the idea of being exposed to a new perspective. However, the feeling wasn’t enormously overwhelming, so I would force it to reside in the back of my mind where it was hidden but kept haunting.

Watching others suffer, and get hurt by those close to them is a very traumatizing experience. All over the country many children are suffering in different ways, which will affect them in the long run. It’s actions such as these that have swayed me, in order to help and save many in my community. As I progress in life I wish to help those in need, in order to give them a better environment to live in. This essay is being written so my history, current situation, and future shall be known to the person reading this.

Do you remember what your priorities were when you were eight years old? When I was that age (1965), I was in third grade. One of my jobs was to make breakfast on weekday mornings for some of my younger brothers and sisters. At that age, my primary goal was to figure out ways to get out of work around the house, so I could go outside and play with my cousins who lived in the neighborhood.

My parents used to tell me that education was a privilege, not a right, and that I was fortunate to live in a democracy where I was legally entitled to my education. As I got older, partially because of this upbringing, I used to think the word privilege could only be applied to address the wealthy people of higher social hierarchies who were bestowed benefits and advantages from society, a true life of privilege. I never once thought that word could refer to me. I made that mistake during a conversation I had a year ago with my brother’s girlfriend, Sara. To put it simply, she is a bright and radiant twenty-four year old woman whom I admire profusely, specifically for her intelligence and wit which got her into Dental School. With regards to this, it is important to understand that she is Asian and of Chinese-ethnicity, and I am of Macedonian-ethnicity but considered Caucasian. That particular day, I started applying to universities and was talking spiritedly to Sara after-school about my hopes and ambitions; I told her that I wanted to enter the English program and potentially head off to Teaching College afterwards. She challenged me by asking if I had ever thought about Law School. In fact, it was something I had never thought about, which I told her. To emphasize her point further, she told me about how when she was in her Biology program she had never aimed academically higher than getting into Hygiene school, let alone Dentistry. The idea seemed ridiculous to me.