Solution-Focus Therapy

As the name suggests, Solution-Focus Therapy (SFT) is future-focused,

goal-directed, and focuses on solutions, rather than on the problems that brought clients to seek therapy. Using the SFT, how could you, as a mental health nurse practitioner encourage a client, who is depressed, to make immediate and permanent behavior changes in order to improve his/her mood and challenge negative ways of thinking, especially when the client views these changes to be insurmountable?

Narrative therapy focuses on the client’s understanding of his or her own story and how the client’s emotions, actions, and problems fit into the context of the story. How do narrative approaches fit with family therapy traditions?