Miracle question promotes open communication and positive interaction between clients and practitioners

Abstract

This article reflects on Estonian practitioners’ voices to researchers and other practitioners by sharing their experiences of the solution-focused technique, ‘the miracle question’, they found useful in constructing solutions. This technique promoted thinking about becoming a better practitioner, empowerment, and the need to move away from traditional approaches in order to enhance improved outcomes for clients and to promote their well-being.

Building a Collaborative Relationship With an Involuntary Parent in Child Protective Services

“…Various techniques and strengths-based models could be helpful here to foster workers' skills in using such approaches. For example, solutionfocused techniques, which emphasise people's resilience, strengths and resources, have been found to be useful with involuntary parents, specifically with improving communication and building relationships with untrusting, uncollaborative and defensive individuals (Toros, 2019b). Second, the systematic use of recognition and strengths-based models requires self-reflection.…”