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Can One Call Make A Difference? Training Mental health professionals within the Alzheimer’s Association

Institute Director Emeritus Yvonne Dolan interviews David Parris, Alzheimer’s Association Care Consultants Director, about their clinician’s experience using Solution-Focused Brief Therapy to help caregivers and patients deal with the crises associated with Alzheimer's. One of the most rewarding aspects of being a Solution-Focused Brief Therapy trainer is the opportunity to interact with inspiring colleagues and Read More >

Anne Lutz2024-08-12T21:00:21+00:00July 30th, 2021|

Single Session Solution-Focused Therapy: Harnessing the Moment in Crisis Mental Health

Anne Bodmer Lutz, M.D. Mental health workforce shortages combined with increased demand for services have required mental health professionals and organizations to devise innovative service delivery strategies. In emergencies and crises, the inability to offer multiple session treatment and follow-up for mental health often makes Single Session Therapy the only option. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Read More >

Anne Lutz2024-08-12T20:49:17+00:00July 30th, 2021|

A Solution-Focused Approach to Supporting Clients Experiencing Grief

As a long-time Solution-Focused (SF) practitioner, trainer and developer, I view grief as a natural, aspect of the human life experience. I also believe that there is more than one “right” way to grieve and that the process differs according to culture, personality, relationship and personal context. Grief at its most intense engulfs a Read More >

Anne Lutz2024-08-12T20:49:39+00:00May 25th, 2021|

Solution-Focused Article List Evidence 2019 updated

Brockman, Mariah, et al. “Managing Child Behavior Problems in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders: Utilizing Structural and Solution Focused Therapy With Primary Caregivers.” The American Journal of Family Therapy, vol. 44, no. 1, 2015, pp. 1–10., doi:10.1080/01926187.2015.1099414. Carr, Alan, et al. “Parents Plus Systemic, Solution-Focused Parent Training Programs: Description, Review of the Evidence Base, Read More >

Anne Lutz2024-08-12T20:50:33+00:00February 5th, 2020|

Solution-Based Therapy Finding More Prominent Role

As physicians shift care from a disease-centered to a patient-centered clinical method, there is a need for a compatible counseling paradigm. Solution-focused therapy is a competency-based model that minimizes emphasis on past problems and failings and instead focuses on patient strengths and resources (Trepper et al., 2006). Read the full article on Psychiatric New Update

Anne Lutz2024-08-12T20:51:09+00:00January 31st, 2020|

A Language of Hope: The Top 10 Solution-Focused Translations

Conversations that allow clients to access possibility lead to amplified self-agency and a realization that goals are realistic and attainable. View the article on Psychiatric News Update

Anne Lutz2024-08-12T20:51:31+00:00January 31st, 2020|

How Solution-Focused-Therapy can enhance care of the medically complex patient

An Inspiring Conversation with Dr. Margret Cheng I have had the immense pleasure of meeting Dr. Cheng, who has combined training in both Pediatrics and Internal Medicine. She dedicates her work to the care of medically and socially complex patients in underserved areas. She recently has been trying Solution Focused Skills in the care of Read More >

Anne Lutz2024-08-12T20:52:04+00:00June 4th, 2019|

A Language of Hope: Solution-Focused Translations

By Anne Bodmer Lutz, M.D. In my over 20 years as a practicing child and family psychiatrist, I have come to realize that in addition to a very different paradigm than problem-focused therapies, solution-focused therapy pays meticulous attention to language and words that instill hope and respect. I invite you to consider a few examples Read More >

Anne Lutz2024-08-12T20:52:28+00:00May 16th, 2019|

Cope is one letter away from Hope: Solution-Focused Safety Assessment (SFSA)

By Anne Bodmer Lutz, M.D. "And for all those tea drinkers out there: Let’s learn a lesson from tea. It shows it’s real worth when it gets into hot water” ~ Annonymous "There are questions which illuminate, and there are those that destroy. We should ask the first kind" ~ Quote from Nobel physicist Isaac Read More >

Anne Lutz2024-08-12T20:52:44+00:00May 3rd, 2019|

“Who” is the person in person-centered care? A Solution-Focused perspective.

Anne Bodmer Lutz, B.S.N. M.D. What does “person-centered care” mean? The use of this terminology is frequent, but the concept is vague. "Person-centered care" (PCC) has been recognized as one of the critical elements needed for the redesign of our nation's health care system (IOM, 2001). The Institute of Medicine (2001) defined PCC as Read More >

Anne Lutz2025-03-07T19:39:43+00:00March 25th, 2018|