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Using the client's language, SFBT uses the client's perspective [12] and fosters cooperation. [19] The focus on the strengths and resources of clients is a factor in why some social workers choose SFBT. [20] SFBT is designed to help people change their lives in the fastest way possible.
Strength-based practice is a social work practice theory that emphasizes people's self-determination and strengths. It is a philosophy and a way of viewing clients (originally psychological patients, but in an extended sense also employees, colleagues or other persons) as resourceful and resilient in the face of adversity. [1]
After identifying dozens of "candidate strengths", the researchers refined their list by subjecting them to a list of ten criteria [a] to help them select the final 24 strengths for the CSV. [1] Approximately half of the strengths included in the CSV meet all ten criteria, and half do not. [ 1 ]
Narrative therapy (or narrative practice) [1] is a form of psychotherapy that seeks to help patients identify their values and the skills associated with them. It provides the patient with knowledge of their ability to embody these values so they can effectively confront current and future problems.
Some of the strengths of EFT approaches can be summarized as follows: EFT aims to be collaborative and respectful of clients, combining experiential person-centered therapy techniques with systemic therapy interventions. [95] Change strategies and interventions are specified through intensive analysis of psychotherapy process. [96]
Motivational interviewing (MI) is a counseling approach developed in part by clinical psychologists William R. Miller and Stephen Rollnick.It is a directive, client-centered counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients to explore and resolve ambivalence.
Reality therapy (RT) is an approach to psychotherapy and counseling developed by William Glasser in the 1960s. It differs from conventional psychiatry, psychoanalysis and medical model schools of psychotherapy in that it focuses on what Glasser calls "psychiatry's three Rs" – realism, responsibility, and right-and-wrong – rather than mental disorders. [1]
In reviewing the research conducted among members of these four self-help/mutual-help organizations, they identify three different mechanisms which might underlie the therapeutic effect of mutual-help: (1) when an individual helps another, the helper's social functioning improves because the act of providing help to another allows the helper to ...