ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that how solution-focused therapy (SFT) has impacted on care for one service user. SFT simply shifts the focus from talking about the problem to talking about solutions, focusing on the present and the future rather than the past. Service users focus on recovering and creating solutions rather than talking about their problems. Reframing simply encourages the service user to think differently about their problems. By helping them generate new descriptions about their problems, potential solutions can be revealed. Compliments play a big part in SFT. They are used to genuinely express admiration to the service user and as a way to reinforce their strengths, resources and solutions. SFT identifies the following principles when using goal setting: the goal must be important to the client, keep goals small, achievable and realistic and make goals concrete, specific and behavioural.
