Solution focused
- Focus not on problems, on what the individual lacks, on insight into problem, on cause.
- Seeking occasions in which an individual is able to think, feel, and act in ways that move them toward better understandings and meaning.
- Focus on acceptance.
Social constructivist model
- Social life influences the experiences an individual will have and how that experience will be interpreted
- Emphasis on the ways people come to make sense of their situation and preferred future
- Identifies ways people have already achieved understanding that is helpful to them
- Self reinforcing nature of problems and attempted solutions
- Attempted solutions can maintain problems
- Interruption / shift needed in attempt to solve problem
Narrative
- Centrality of people’s stories about themselves
- The opportunity to re-author, to develop rich storied lives rather than thin descriptions
- The problem is the problem, the person is not the problem
De-centred
- A joint venture, a collaboration
- Questions do not have to have an answer Aspect of negotiation over questions
- Process of working open to discussion and explanation
- Curious, sitting on assumptions, nonnormative
- I am not the authority on someone’s life
What might happen in a session
- Ask to talk about problem
- Externalising questions -calling the problem something externalises it
- Other questions
- Scaling – “on a scale of 1-10 where are you with this problem?”
- Documents
- Outsider witness
- Reclaim more of the non-problem space
From a lecture by Liz Todd