Steve De Shazer and the Future of Solution-Focused Therapy

Trepper, Terry S; Dolan, Yvonne; McCollum, Eric E.; Nelson, Thorana S.

doi:10.1111/j.1752-0606.2006.tb01595.x

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“…The solutions-focused brief therapy (SFBT) approach was founded by Steve de Shazer (Trepper et al, 2006) and focuses on client strengths resiliencies. There has been an increased interest in applying this approach to school settings (Franklin et al, 2001).…”

Section: Solutions-focus Learning Philosophymentioning

confidence: 99%

The venture creation approach: integrating entrepreneurial education and incubation at the university

Ollila¹,

Middleton²

2011

IJEIM

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University entrepreneurial activity strives to deliver commercial value from university research. Entrepreneurial education, while having the same fundamental purpose, focuses on the stimulus of the individual. Recognising a gap in the literature between the fields of university entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial education, this paper proposes a venture creation approach to learning within an integrated environment. A study of Chalmers School of Entrepreneurship shows how university entrepreneurship, in the form of incubation, and entrepreneurial education, can be integrated. This integration provides both opportunities and challenges, both of which are addressed by utilising conventional problem-oriented and solution-focused learning philosophies in tandem. The venture creation approach builds upon combined learning philosophies in order to allow students to 'test the water' while reflecting upon real-life situations and explore entrepreneurial behaviours when creating new ventures. The paper concludes that actors engaged in combined entrepreneurial education and venture creation need to recognise, adapt to, and appreciate the tension and dynamics of the integrated environment.

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Section: Solutions-focus Learning Philosophymentioning

confidence: 99%

The venture creation approach: integrating entrepreneurial education and incubation at the university

Ollila¹,

Middleton²

2011

IJEIM

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“…Solutionfocused treatment is an innovation to psychotherapy that is based on developing solutions instead of solving problems in relation to exploring future hopes (9). Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is an efficient and evidence-based intervention that is rooted in the belief that it is important to build on the resources and motivation of clients who know their problems best and are capable of finding solutions to solve their own problems, a future-focused approach that serves as a brief intervention (10,11). The intervention mostly focuses on solutions rather than solving problems (12).…”

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The Efficiency of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy on Adjustment Problems of Female Students in Amol, Iran

Hosseinpour¹,

Jadidi²,

Mohebbi³

et al. 2015

Int J School Health

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Background: Adjustment and coordination with environment is indispensable to all people. Objectives: The aim of present study was to determine the effectiveness of solution-focused brief therapy in increasing adjustment of high school female students. Materials and Methods: This study was based on an experimental pretest-posttest design including 30 female students of Amol high school in academic year 2011 -2012.The participants were selected by purposive non-convenience sampling methods, randomly assigned to experimental and control groups, who completed the Bell's adjustment questionnaire in pre-test phase. Thirty subjects with scores close to mean were selected and randomly divided into control and experimental groups. Solution-focused brief therapy intervention for experimental group was carried out in 5 sessions followed by performing posttest on the two groups. The data obtained were then analyzed using MANCOVA. Results:The results showed that solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) was effective in increasing adjustment of the students (P < 0.0006), as well as increasing 3 subscales of adjustment questionnaire comprising home adjustment (P < 0.0006); health adjustment (P < 0.0006); and social adjustment (P < 0.0003); but had no effect on affective adjustment (P < 0.081). Conclusions: Considering the significant effect of SFBT interventions on increasing adjustment in young students, the training of school counselors can be an effective means for youth to achieve their goals and decrease some problems in the community.

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“…Solution-focused conversation is potentially something that all health and social care professionals can and should partake in and has already been used in a wide variety of different settings. [6] Health and social care personnel can use this ideological approach to form a meaningful therapeutic communication with service users who are and can get distressed.…”

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“…[6,[9][10][11] Solution focused approaches have been described in mental health nursing clinical practice and research, [12][13][14][15] as well as healthcare professionals education, training and practice development. [16][17][18][19] Webster et al [20] and Vaughn et al [21] describe the implementation of SFBT principles to an acute inpatient unit.…”

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Enhancing the therapeutic interaction skills of staff working in acute adult inpatient psychiatric wards: Outcomes of a brief intervention education programme

Chambers¹,

Kantaris²

2017

JNEP

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Background and objective: Clinical practice in acute inpatient environments is complex and demanding for clinical staff. To facilitate service user recovery, it is essential that personnel working in these environments are competent and confident in a range of therapeutic interaction skills, which can have impact in a brief period. This paper describes an exploratory study which determined the outcomes of a brief therapeutic engagement education and training short course for staff working in adult inpatient acute wards. As far as we know this was the first time, based on evidence from earlier research involving service users that Heron's Six Category Intervention Analysis and solution focused brief therapy (SFBT) have been combined in an education and training short course that was coproduced and delivered in partnership with service users for staff working in acute environments. Methods: The short course explored the myriad applications of the six categories of intervention initially proposed by Heron and the widespread applicability of SFBT. The programme evaluation adopted focus group methodology and examined: (1) how useful the training content was to daily practice and how relevant the skills learn were to interactions with service user residing on the ward; (2) the factors than helped enable the transference of the learning to the ward environment as well as any barriers; (3) personal learning; and (4) strengths of the learning experience and suggestions for improvement to the training and learning experience. Results: Feedback from participants reflected a high degree of skill and knowledge acquisition and enhancement. Staff found the content of the training useful and helpful to their daily practice as it aided in increasing confidence, therapeutic interventions and care-planning. Skills learnt by the trainees were considered relevant to interactions with service users residing on the ward. Factors that helped to enable encounters with service users, as well as the barriers, when transferring the learning to the ward environment were discussed and included managerial support, demand for beds, time, opportunity and staffing shortages. Regarding personal learning, staff reported feeling more able to connect with service users when employing SFBT techniques and Heron's intervention approaches and felt that the training validated their current working practice. Conclusions:The SFBT training appears to have provided an interactional communication toolkit for healthcare professionals and could be further embraced given the right circumstances e.g. managerial support and attitude change of nursing staff in general. Further research is needed to gain an understanding of the effect of short and concentrated education and training programmes aimed at staff members working within adult acute inpatient mental healthcare settings, as well as measuring whether the activity, i.e. healthcare professional-service user interactions, is meaningful to service user outcomes.

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Steve De Shazer and the Future of Solution-Focused Therapy

Cited by 71 publications

References 25 publications

The venture creation approach: integrating entrepreneurial education and incubation at the university

The venture creation approach: integrating entrepreneurial education and incubation at the university

The Efficiency of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy on Adjustment Problems of Female Students in Amol, Iran

Enhancing the therapeutic interaction skills of staff working in acute adult inpatient psychiatric wards: Outcomes of a brief intervention education programme

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