ABSTRACT
A solution analysis has three basic steps: generating, evaluating and implementing solutions. The first step, generating solutions, requires the therapist and client to identify as many potential solutions as possible for each relevant link in the chain analysis. The therapist integrates various CBT interventions as appropriate without becoming overly focused on or attached to any one intervention. For example, novice therapists often focus almost exclusively on skills or skills plus cognitive restructuring as solutions, but a solution analysis that considers only skills provides only a quarter of the solutions available. Similarly, many clients initially demonstrate a tendency to overly rely on the distress-tolerance skills, rather than use the full range of skills.
