Solution Focus Therapy Moodality

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Introduction
I work for the Division of Child Protection and Permanency. The treatment modality that the Division of Child Protection and Permanency use most frequently is Solution Focus Therapy. Using this modality is new within our agency. For some time, the Division was known for their intrusive, demanding and dictating ways when dealing with families that became involved with our agency. As a result of this behavior our agency gained a bad reputation in our communities and the families we serve saw the Division of Child Protection and Permanency as an enemy and not as an ally.
The families that become involved with the Division are usually in crisis. According to De Jong (2002), it is more productive and empowering when clients are able to make decisions for themselves (p. 10). The
These three modalities works well when dealing with families that are in crisis and that may have a distorted or self-defeating way of thinking. Where all three modalities are similar is how the model works with changing thought patterns and processes. Solution Focus Therapy differs from the two in how is it is not necessary to know the full history of the client. Solution focus therapy can be effective despite knowing the clients underlying needs or the traumatic events that have happen to them in the past.
Solution Focus Therapy sees the client as the expert. According to Nichols (2013), "Solution-focused therapist assumes that people are resilient and resourceful and that "clients are assumed to be experts on their own lives"(p.247). In family structural therapy the therapist is the expert. The therapist also takes on an expert role in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as they work to have the client challenge and change thoughts and