Solution Focused

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Permalink Reply by Simon Lee on May 9, 2017 at 13:53

John Wheeler Hi Simon, Steve de Shazer was often asked why he wrote "Solution-Focused". He explained that he gave the MRI group the credit for creating a new approach to therapy which they named as Brief Therapy. he saw their approach "Problem-Focused Brief Therapy...See More

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 · May 6 at 3:41pm

Paul Z Jackson Who is Paul Z Book?

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 · Reply · May 6 at 3:51pm

John Wheeler Ooops. Sorry about that Paul. Early morning posting with a checking of my post prior to sending in which I only saw what I expected to see. Hope you and Janine are both well. see you soon at the UK conference.

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 · May 6 at 4:01pm

John Brooker

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 · Reply · May 6 at 6:29pm

John Brooker Now you have written enough, maybe you can change your name Paul?

 

Paul Z Jackson We called it Solutions Focus to distinguish it a bit in our version that went from therapy to management. Later a client once suggested Solutions rather than Solution, 'because there may be many solutions for any problem',

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 · May 6 at 3:50pm

Haesun Moon and I heard conversations about capitalizing the S or not also (which I found quite useful actually!) :-) And... these distinctions became even more amusing and intriguing when I talked to people who speak different languages as they "translate" this in their own language keeping the principles alive...

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 · May 7 at 3:39am

Roger Charlesworth A rose by any other name..........................

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 · Reply · May 7 at 6:47pm

John Wheeler Indeed. and course there was an earlier time when Insoo and Steve used to call it "it".