A group of nursing students is preparing a class presentation comparing the different types of cognitive therapies. When describing solution-focused brief therapy, which characteristic would the students identify as being different from the other therapies?

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Solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT), although basically a cognitive approach, differs in philosophy and approach from other cognitively based approaches. The primary difference is the de-emphasis on the client's "problems," or symptoms, and an emphasis on what is functional and healthful. SFBT assists the client in exploring life without the problem, and it asserts that what is expected to happen influences what the client does. By discovering what future the client sees as worth striving for, the present becomes important to that future. SFBT focuses on solutions rather than problems. It does not challenge the existence of problems but proposes that problems are best understood in relation to their solutions. SFBT assumes that change is constant and inevitable.

A Group of Nursing Students Is Preparing a Class Presentation