After reviewing this week’s resources, address the following in notes and a treatment plan.
In the two videos on solution-focused therapy, you will observe aspects of solution-focused therapy such as complimenting, miracle question, exceptions, scaling questions, and homework. Use your observational skills to identify more about this approach. Address the following topics with brief paragraphs or a bulleted list. The final item asks you to prepare an abbreviated treatment plan for the couple in the video using solution-focused therapy. Harrison (2019), in your resource list, will guide you in this process.
• Therapeutic Relationship: Describe the therapist/client relationship in solution-focused therapies. Describe what you observed about the therapist/client relationship in the videos.
• Assessing Client Strengths: Describe several ways a therapist can identify individual and family strengths. What strengths did you see in this couple?
• Solution-focused Interventions: Describe several solution-focused interventions. Identify examples from the videos.
• Goal Setting: Identify some goals you might have for the couple in the videos. While these would be constructed with the client, use your imagination.
• Solution-Generating Questions: Include two examples of possible solution-generating questions that you might ask this couple. Include a rationale for why you chose this question and how it fits with this model.
• Integration of the Recovery Model: How could concepts from the recovery be applied in solution-focused therapy?
• Treatment Planning: Use what you have written about to develop an abbreviated treatment plan. You can use the treatment plan examples in Harrison (2019) as a guide. Include examples of initial tasks, working phase tasks, and closing phase tasks. Please include your systemic hypothesis.
Length: 4-6 pages, not including title or reference pages
References: Include a minimum of 3 scholarly resources.
Your summary and treatment plan should demonstrate thoughtful consideration of the ideas and concepts presented in the course by providing new thoughts and insights relating directly to this topic. Your response should reflect scholarly writing and current APA standards where appropriate. Be sure to adhere to Northcentral University's Academic Integrity Policy.