A Solutions-Focused Therapy Plan for a Hypothetical Family.
The central philosophy of solution-focused therapy is that clients bring with them strengths and capacities they can access and develop to make their lives more satisfactory. Assuming the client is the expert, the therapist is responsible for developing a collaborative context and helping the client articulate desired changes. The therapist magnifies client strengths, resources, and past successes, which leads to the construction of solutions. As the therapist and client create a cooperative context within which solution building ensues, information is collected in order to understand what will be different once the problem is solved. With an orientation to the present and future, solution-focused therapy uses language and techniques that address how problems will be solved rather than what caused the problem and how the problem is maintained. In the case of the Ward family, we have an opportunity to develop a family therapy plan that can really achieve a significant amount of positive effect. Solution-focused therapy will help each member appreciate the specific strengths of the others. It will also promote the kind of team-work necessary for a family, particularly one with as many challenges as the Wards face, to work towards goals. It is the purpose of this paper to use the Ward family as the case study to demonstrate the design and benefit of a solution-focused therapy program.APA format.13-pages, bibliography lists 2 sources.
