100 NEW RESOURCES · 20 THEMES · FIVE FORMATS
Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) resources
Explore original educational activities, worksheets, clinician dialogues, session plans, and reflection journals.
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These resources are organized around 20 practice themes. The five formats serve different purposes; they are not 100 separate therapy techniques. Independent clinical review is pending.
Best Hopes Conversation
- Best Hopes Conversation — Concept brief — 8 minutes
- Best Hopes Conversation — Practice worksheet — 15 minutes
- Best Hopes Conversation — Clinician dialogue — 15 minutes
- Best Hopes Conversation — Session activity — 30 minutes
- Best Hopes Conversation — Review journal — 10 minutes
Preferred Future Scene
- Preferred Future Scene — Concept brief — 8 minutes
- Preferred Future Scene — Practice worksheet — 15 minutes
- Preferred Future Scene — Clinician dialogue — 15 minutes
- Preferred Future Scene — Session activity — 30 minutes
- Preferred Future Scene — Review journal — 10 minutes
Miracle Question with Choice
- Miracle Question with Choice — Concept brief — 8 minutes
- Miracle Question with Choice — Practice worksheet — 15 minutes
- Miracle Question with Choice — Clinician dialogue — 15 minutes
- Miracle Question with Choice — Session activity — 30 minutes
- Miracle Question with Choice — Review journal — 10 minutes
Exception Finder
- Exception Finder — Concept brief — 8 minutes
- Exception Finder — Practice worksheet — 15 minutes
- Exception Finder — Clinician dialogue — 15 minutes
- Exception Finder — Session activity — 30 minutes
- Exception Finder — Review journal — 10 minutes
Deliberate and Accidental Exceptions
- Deliberate and Accidental Exceptions — Concept brief — 8 minutes
- Deliberate and Accidental Exceptions — Practice worksheet — 15 minutes
- Deliberate and Accidental Exceptions — Clinician dialogue — 15 minutes
- Deliberate and Accidental Exceptions — Session activity — 30 minutes
- Deliberate and Accidental Exceptions — Review journal — 10 minutes
Scaling in Your Own Words
- Scaling in Your Own Words — Concept brief — 8 minutes
- Scaling in Your Own Words — Practice worksheet — 15 minutes
- Scaling in Your Own Words — Clinician dialogue — 15 minutes
- Scaling in Your Own Words — Session activity — 30 minutes
- Scaling in Your Own Words — Review journal — 10 minutes
Why Not Lower
- Why Not Lower — Concept brief — 8 minutes
- Why Not Lower — Practice worksheet — 15 minutes
- Why Not Lower — Clinician dialogue — 15 minutes
- Why Not Lower — Session activity — 30 minutes
- Why Not Lower — Review journal — 10 minutes
Half-Step Forward
- Half-Step Forward — Concept brief — 8 minutes
- Half-Step Forward — Practice worksheet — 15 minutes
- Half-Step Forward — Clinician dialogue — 15 minutes
- Half-Step Forward — Session activity — 30 minutes
- Half-Step Forward — Review journal — 10 minutes
Coping under Constraint
- Coping under Constraint — Concept brief — 8 minutes
- Coping under Constraint — Practice worksheet — 15 minutes
- Coping under Constraint — Clinician dialogue — 15 minutes
- Coping under Constraint — Session activity — 30 minutes
- Coping under Constraint — Review journal — 10 minutes
Relationship Questions
- Relationship Questions — Concept brief — 8 minutes
- Relationship Questions — Practice worksheet — 15 minutes
- Relationship Questions — Clinician dialogue — 15 minutes
- Relationship Questions — Session activity — 30 minutes
- Relationship Questions — Review journal — 10 minutes
Resources Already in Use
- Resources Already in Use — Concept brief — 8 minutes
- Resources Already in Use — Practice worksheet — 15 minutes
- Resources Already in Use — Clinician dialogue — 15 minutes
- Resources Already in Use — Session activity — 30 minutes
- Resources Already in Use — Review journal — 10 minutes
Specific Compliments by Consent
- Specific Compliments by Consent — Concept brief — 8 minutes
- Specific Compliments by Consent — Practice worksheet — 15 minutes
- Specific Compliments by Consent — Clinician dialogue — 15 minutes
- Specific Compliments by Consent — Session activity — 30 minutes
- Specific Compliments by Consent — Review journal — 10 minutes
Doing More of What Helps
- Doing More of What Helps — Concept brief — 8 minutes
- Doing More of What Helps — Practice worksheet — 15 minutes
- Doing More of What Helps — Clinician dialogue — 15 minutes
- Doing More of What Helps — Session activity — 30 minutes
- Doing More of What Helps — Review journal — 10 minutes
Try Something Different
- Try Something Different — Concept brief — 8 minutes
- Try Something Different — Practice worksheet — 15 minutes
- Try Something Different — Clinician dialogue — 15 minutes
- Try Something Different — Session activity — 30 minutes
- Try Something Different — Review journal — 10 minutes
Noticing Change between Sessions
- Noticing Change between Sessions — Concept brief — 8 minutes
- Noticing Change between Sessions — Practice worksheet — 15 minutes
- Noticing Change between Sessions — Clinician dialogue — 15 minutes
- Noticing Change between Sessions — Session activity — 30 minutes
- Noticing Change between Sessions — Review journal — 10 minutes
Setback as Information
- Setback as Information — Concept brief — 8 minutes
- Setback as Information — Practice worksheet — 15 minutes
- Setback as Information — Clinician dialogue — 15 minutes
- Setback as Information — Session activity — 30 minutes
- Setback as Information — Review journal — 10 minutes
Multiple Views of Progress
- Multiple Views of Progress — Concept brief — 8 minutes
- Multiple Views of Progress — Practice worksheet — 15 minutes
- Multiple Views of Progress — Clinician dialogue — 15 minutes
- Multiple Views of Progress — Session activity — 30 minutes
- Multiple Views of Progress — Review journal — 10 minutes
Keeping the Helpful Difference
- Keeping the Helpful Difference — Concept brief — 8 minutes
- Keeping the Helpful Difference — Practice worksheet — 15 minutes
- Keeping the Helpful Difference — Clinician dialogue — 15 minutes
- Keeping the Helpful Difference — Session activity — 30 minutes
- Keeping the Helpful Difference — Review journal — 10 minutes
Ending with a Useful Summary
- Ending with a Useful Summary — Concept brief — 8 minutes
- Ending with a Useful Summary — Practice worksheet — 15 minutes
- Ending with a Useful Summary — Clinician dialogue — 15 minutes
- Ending with a Useful Summary — Session activity — 30 minutes
- Ending with a Useful Summary — Review journal — 10 minutes
Solution-Focused Group Exchange
- Solution-Focused Group Exchange — Concept brief — 8 minutes
- Solution-Focused Group Exchange — Practice worksheet — 15 minutes
- Solution-Focused Group Exchange — Clinician dialogue — 15 minutes
- Solution-Focused Group Exchange — Session activity — 30 minutes
- Solution-Focused Group Exchange — Review journal — 10 minutes