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Psychological Rehabilitation of COVID-19
Published in Wenguang Xia, Xiaolin Huang, Rehabilitation from COVID-19, 2021
The focus solution mode, also known as solution-focused brief therapy, refers to a short-term psychotherapy technique centered on finding solutions to problems. It is a psychotherapy model developed in the context of positive psychology that fully respects individuals and believes in their own resources and potentiality. It is widely used in the areas of family services, public and social services, community treatment centers, child welfare, and schools and hospitals and has received positive recognition. Therapists need to be time-sensitive and make consultations time-effective and treat each session as the last one. The treatment method is goal-oriented rather than problem-oriented. It emphasizes finding ways to solve problems rather than discovering the causes of problems and promotes changes with a positive, future-oriented, and goal-oriented positive attitude.
Treatment and management strategies
Published in Stephanie Martin, Working with Voice Disorders, 2020
Solution-focused brief therapy is a type of talking therapy that is based upon social constructionist philosophy. It focuses on what patients want to achieve through therapy, rather than on the problem(s) that made them seek help. The approach focuses on past successes as well as future descriptions of the client’s desired outcome. The therapist uses respectful curiosity to invite the patient to envisage their preferred future and then the clinician and patient start attending to any moves towards it, whether these are small, incremental or large changes. To support this, questions are asked about the patient’s story, strengths and resources, and about exceptions to the problem.
What is Palin Parent–Child Interaction Therapy?
Published in Elaine Kelman, Alison Nicholas, Palin Parent–Child Interaction Therapy for Early Childhood Stammering, 2020
Elaine Kelman, Alison Nicholas
Solution Focused Brief Therapy has significantly impacted our therapy over the years, shaping the conversations that we have with parents about the way they support their child. This trajectory has been further developed in the current Palin PCI programme, with solution focused conversations establishing parents’ hopes and expectations as well as framing their reports of progress throughout therapy.
Solution-focused brief therapy for adolescent and young adult cancer patients in China: a pilot randomized controlled trial
Published in Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 2022
Anao Zhang, Qingying Ji, Kan Zhang, Qing Cao, Yuting Chen, Jingzhi Chen, Adam DuVall
Second, even for AYAs who have the time and energy to receive evidence-based interventions, many of them choose not to due to the stigma surrounding mental health services.17 Psychological services are often located in a separate unit or building in the hospital and visiting the department of psychological service is stigmatizing for many Chinese AYAs with cancer.18 Indeed, studies have documented high level of refusal (≥ 60%) to psychological services among Chinese AYA patients with cancer out of concerns over stigmatization.3,19 Finally, many evidence-based psychosocial treatments are structured and diagnostically oriented, which has resulted in high level of drop out among AYAs with cancer in China.20 Given the above mentioned treatment barriers among Chinese AYA cancer patients, it would be ideal to deliver a brief, destigmatizing, and strength-based (i.e., nondiagnostic) psychosocial intervention for psychological distress among Chinese AYA cancer patients. One such intervention is solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT).
Spiritual Predictors of Improved Resilience in People Recovering from Alcohol Use Disorder: An Exploratory Study
Published in Alcoholism Treatment Quarterly, 2022
Claire Hiernaux, Isabelle Varescon
Spirituality/religion (S/R) seems to be a resilience factor (Masten & Obradovic, 2006) because it proposes a belief system upon which individuals can rely on, to search for meaning in potentially traumatic experiences and reconstruct their world view (Janoff-Bulman, 2004), thus restoring a sense of internal coherence and control over one’s life (Pourtois et al., 2012). In the present study, spirituality explained 32.2% of the total variance of resilience, after adjusting for sociodemographic, addiction, and treatment variables. A first group of spiritual predictors of resilience was: believing that there is a purpose in one’s life (SWBS20) that is associated with a sense of well-being about one’s future (SWBS14). Surprisingly, the search for meaning was not the best spiritual predictor of resilience: the item that evaluates meaning of life (SWBS18) lost its significance when added to other spiritual elements. It was more important for individuals to identify a purpose for their life. These results can be related to the Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) (Zhang, Franklin, Currin-mcculloch, Park, & Kim, 2018) or Positive Psychology Interventions (PPI) such as setting personal goals (Bolier et al., 2013; Green, Oades, & Grant, 2006; Sheldon, Kasser, Smith, & Share, 2002).
A comparison of online and in-person counseling outcomes using solution-focused brief therapy for college students with anxiety
Published in Journal of American College Health, 2022
Jocelyn K. Novella, Kok-Mun Ng, Jessica Samuolis
Treatment fidelity was assessed by the second author and another counselor who participated in the initial SFBT training with the treatment team. These two fidelity assessors reviewed audio recordings of all 1st sessions and 10 randomly selected subsequent sessions. All initial sessions, whether in-person or through Doxy.me, were recorded for the purposes of evaluating treatment fidelity. Because Doxy.me does not allow for recording to ensure HIPAA security, we recorded the sessions externally through an audio digital recorder. All recordings were deleted upon completion of the fidelity check. We developed two adherence checklists—1st session and follow-up—to facilitate the process. They were developed based on guidelines recommended by the Solution Focused Brief Therapy Association (2013).