When a situation is brought to the fore, we automatically focus on the situation we call the 'problem', understand the 'problem' thoroughly, discover its causes, and then try to eliminate these causes, we normally hope to achieve a solution, right? Workers in the field of psychotherapy also continued the same thing for a long time, and it was thought and progressed as if to 'repair' what was 'broken'. When psychotherapy is applied well, it often reduces the problems in the middle and is a method that aims to change the person's perspective on these problems. But how effective is emphasizing the depression we have in getting us out of this situation?
Dear Martin Seligman, who is known as the first person to put the concept of positive psychology on the table, said, 'If we continue to instill pessimism in our children by emphasizing the current epidemic of pessimism, depression is inevitable. There will be a rise!'.
A group of psychologists who thought, 'Then what should we understand from this discourse?' have focused on this subject, have done very valuable studies, and as a result, what reduces the problems is the strengths and personal resources of the person in the psychotherapy process. They concluded that he was awake. They also realized that if we focus on the solution, we can reach the solution point in a much shorter time than when we focus on the problem.
So what is this Solution-Focused Short-Term Therapy?
Is it possible that knowing the cause of the problem does not actually lead us to the solution?
We focus entirely on the solution itself! We do not get stuck in the unsolved problems. In solution-focused therapy, clients set the goal they want to achieve in therapy and pay little attention to diagnosis, symptoms, history, and investigation of problems. Studies on this method have reported that approximately ?–85 percent of clients meet their goals of coming to therapy. And the striking thing here is that the desired point has been reached in less than 6-8 sessions. As it's called Short-Term Solution-Focused Therapy!
What are the principles of this method?
Don't change anything that works well.
If what you're doing has worked even a little bit go ahead, try again.
What you're doing is working. If it does, try again. Do something different.
Don't be fooled by how easy it is to explain, therapists who underestimate this technique because it is easy to teach may also encounter unsuccessful results. The therapist's basic counseling skills need to be developed in order to be successful.
'The greatest hope and desired future'
Trying to get us into the territory of depression at every opportunity, failing to create concrete realistic and accessible goals The miracle question developed by Shazer with a client says: 'Suppose a miracle happened one night while you were asleep and the problem that brought you here has been solved. But you are asleep and do not know that the miracle has happened. What changes tell you when you wake up in the morning that the miracle has happened? What happens?' The miracle question leads to a very clear statement of the goal. Clients usually knock on the door of psychologists with a problem in their hands and leave their problems on the table. The task that falls to us psychologists within the framework of this method is to shine the light on the existence of a world without this problem, and to try to show the finished state of the puzzle by making the person realize the inner resources that actually exist within himself. With this method, which requires the use of a language completely different from classical psychotherapy, our exit from the territory of depression accelerates and we start the process of sailing to radiant happiness by noticing the resources within ourselves.
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