What does short-term psychotherapy mean?

Sfbt refers to a short-term psychotherapy technique that focuses on finding solutions to problems.

Short-term focus solution therapy (SFBT) refers to a short-term psychotherapy technique that focuses on finding solutions to problems, and it is a set of positive and action-oriented psychotherapy methods.

When a case enters the consulting room, he may be completely surrounded by his own problems. For example, he will say that his situation has been very bad, and he is always stuck in a melancholy mood. The spirit of short-term focus solution therapy lies in discovering the possibility of exceptions, discovering visitors' own resources, and helping them see the hope of the future through the narrative of cases.

That is, "when will depression not happen?" Or "When will depression decrease?" Short-term focus solution therapy holds that there are exceptions to any problem. In this case, after feeling the emotion of the visitor, the counselor tries to ask, "What did you do to make you feel better?"

Tourists may say, "When arranging flowers/listening to music …", so counselors can explore this exception in depth. What is the pleasure of arranging flowers? When do you want to arrange flowers? How to arrange flowers when in a bad mood? Exploring in this direction, we may find a way to change in the meantime.

By studying the things done by the case, there will be exceptions. These small exceptions will become the beginning of changes, tap the visitors' own energy, and gradually develop into more changes. This is one of the basic spirits of focus-solving short-term consultation.

In fact, in life, "people want to face the same question in the same way, but they are eager to get different answers", and the basic spirit of SFBT is: if it is effective, don't change it; If a method has been successful, do more; If it doesn't work, change the method; An unsuccessful attempt to solve a problem is a problem, just keep looking for ways to try to change it.

Characteristics of focus short-range consultation

Short-term focus solution therapy provides us with a new perspective to solve problems. It pays attention to visitors' experience resources instead of falling into problems and effectively guides visitors to use their own resources to solve practical problems.

Focus on solving short-distance consulting experts who regard visitors as their own problems;

Adhere to the positive and supportive concept that change is always happening;

In addition, brachytherapy pays more attention to visitors' longing and expectation for the future, which can be described as super positive energy in consultation.

95% EAP consultants use short-term focused solution therapy (SFBT).

75% of American psychotherapists and counselors use short-range focusing to solve psychotherapy.