Understanding and Applying Solution-Focused Family Therapy

they are functioning in terms of their developmental stages. Finally, identify the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral parts of family intervention that might need to be changed. Once the changes are made, the assessment should be made again to see if the family has been making progress and their problems have become less volatile to the family and their interactions.
Solution focused family therapy Solution focused therapy is used by therapist that believe that everyone has a capability to solve their own problems, but they have lost their ability to resolve their problem within the family unit (Nichols, 2014). Families tend to focus on the bad in their lives and only focus on the negative that is going on at the time. The families have

The family might have complainants that try to lead the family to blaming other people, but the family needs to stay away from blame. (Nichols, 2014).
The assessment with the Diaz family would be to ask them how things would be different. How do you know when the problem will be solved? What will have to be different? Solution focused therapy is typically short only last no more than five sessions. When the family has a more positive outlook and can be able to use their strengths to solve the problems or any other future problems, then the therapist should know that the solution focused therapy has worked with the family. During each session, the therapist takes a break and assesses the session and how the family has progressed. They produce a summary to the clients and allow them to give feedback about how the session went. After the first session, this is called the formula first session task. Where the therapist gives goals for the next time that they meet. The therapist brings up certain points that were made by family members and focus on empathy and guidance given by others in the family (Nichols,

Solutions based is the opposite. Therapy only last for about five sessions or less, depending on how the family is doing. Solutions based is different because the therapist is not trying to cognitively change a behavior, but solutions focused has the client change their own behaviors and come back to the next sessions with new ideas and determining if the solutions were successful or not. But with the family going through less sessions, it is more likely that the family might regress back to their old behaviors. On the positive side to solutions focused, because the therapy solutions are created by the family it is easier to reference back to what they learned in therapy and start their solution techniques