Points to Consider When Using Questions in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy :

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  • ソリューション・フォーカスト・ブリーフセラピーの質問の用い方のポイント
  • —熟練したセラピストへの面接調査による質的検討—
  • A Qualitative Study of Interviews With Proficient Therapists

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  Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) uses 4 types of questions: miracle, exception, scaling, and coping questions.  However, cases of therapeutic failure when using these questions have been reported.  Although the developers of solution-focused brief therapy have established guidelines for using the questions, one of the developers has suggested that those guidelines are insufficient.  Therefore, the present study aimed to identify techniques used by proficient therapists when using the questions, and to elucidate points that have not been indicated previously.  The data were collected through interviews with 10 Japanese therapists who were proficient in the use of solution-focused brief therapy, and then were analyzed using a modified grounded theory approach.  The results suggested, for example, that therapists should listen to the clients’ problems prior to asking the miracle and exception questions, and that, when asking the exception questions, therapists should not act so that clients feel that the therapist is denying the existence of their problems.  Finally, the present study suggested some common guidelines for all 4 types of questions, as well as specific guidelines for each type.

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