Brief therapy is
an umbrella term for a variety of approaches to
psychotherapy,
Hypnosis, NLP. It differs from other schools of therapy
in that it emphasises a focus on a specific problem and
direct intervention.
In brief therapy, we
takes responsibility for working more pro-actively with
the client in order to treat clinical and subjective
conditions faster. We also emphasizes precise
observation, utilization of natural resources, and
temporary suspension of disbelief to consider new
perspectives and
multiple viewpoints.
Rather than the formal
analysis of historical causes of distress, the primary
approach of brief therapy is to help the client to view
the present from a wider context and to utilize more
functional understandings. By becoming aware of these
new understandings, successful clients will de facto
undergo spontaneous and generative change.
Brief therapy is often
highly strategic, exploratory, and solution-based rather
than problem-oriented. It is less concerned with how a
problem arose than with the current factors sustaining
it and preventing change. Brief therapists do not adhere
to one "correct" approach, but rather accept that there
being many paths, any of which may or may not in
combination turn out to be ultimately beneficial.
Solution focused brief therapy is an
approach to counselling that is brief and effective. Research shows it
to bring about lasting change. It can be brief because it is
future-focused and because it works with the strengths of those who come
by making the best use of their resources, and it can bring about
lasting change precisely because it aims to build solutions rather than
solve problems. People come to the Brief Therapy Practice with an
enormously diverse range of troubles including stress, depression,
anxiety, sleep-problems, drug and alcohol problems, relationship
difficulties with both children and partners, histories of abuse and
oppression, pain, mental health problems and work-related concerns. On
the basis of the research evidence the Practice will work with anyone
who thinks that solution focused brief therapy could be of help in his
or her life. Our Service is also committed to being able to work not
only with the rich and famous but, anyone with emotional and behavioural
problems.
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Guide to do every day
1.
Study something new every day-
2.
Do at least one new thing different every
day and make it part of your life
3.
Keep a positive dairy
4.
Go for a walk if possible
5.
Get out of house at least once a day
6.
Be nice to someone else at least once a day
7.
Be good/treat yourself at
least once a day
8.
Phone at least one
person everyday
9.
Be good to yourself
10.
It is ok to feel
11.
It is OK to Think
12.
Act as if to give the Confidence to
achieve
13.
Learn to trust yourself
14.
Learn to trust others
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Unhelpful
Thoughts
1.
Over-generalisation. Making a sweeping
statement about oneself following a single incident; “She didn’t want to
go out with me – that means no one will.
2.
Personalisation. Attributing failures to
oneself when other factors may be at least as much to blame: “She didn’t
enjoy the cinema this evening because she was with me”.
3.
Magnification. Misinterpreting a minor
setback as a major disaster, ‘making a mountain out of a mole hill’
“Since she said she couldn’t go out with me that evening it’s pointless
asking her out again”.
4.
Minimisation. Misinterpreting one’s
achievement so that it’s actual worth is underestimated: “She seems to
enjoy my company, but that’s only because there’s nobody else
available”.
5.
Dichotomous reasoning. Categorising oneself
as one thing or the other, as a success or a failure with no
intermediate position: “She doesn’t like me, that’s because I’m
basically unlikeable.
6.
Arbitrary inference. Making a negative
inference from something without taking into account alternative
explanations: “She arrived late which means she didn’t really want to
come anyway”.
7.
Selective Abstraction. Basing a conclusion
on one fact taken out of context while ignoring any conflicting
evidence: Although she has kept all our other arrangements the fact that
she didn’t come tonight means she is not committed to our relationship”.
It can be seen that some
thoughts are examples of more than one mechanism in play; indeed, the
example above of over-generalisation might also result from
personalisation, magnification or selective abstraction.
Thought, Feelings & Action (Cognitive Behavioural Programme)
Designed by Alpha
Integrative Counselling Services
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Handling Criticism
(How to respond to criticism
assertively)
1.
If it’s fair criticism, ask for specific
suggestions, alternatives, from the person. What might you do to handle
a situation, or behave differently?
2.
No need for long, self-critical, or
rationalising excuses.
3.
When a person’s criticism is somewhat
vague, unclear. For example, ‘You are “cold” with people’, have them
clarify or give specific examples.
4.
Respond with opinion statements rather
than ‘you’ statements, for example, ‘I think you misinterpreted what I
said’, instead of, ‘Your interpretation is all wrong.’
It’s ok to
share your reactions, feelings, regard the criticism: ‘I feel a little
angry about your bringing up this issue again’, or ‘I feel unjustly
criticised.’
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YOU
ARE VERY SPECIAL
In the entire world there
is nobody, nobody like you. Since the beginning of time there has never
been another person like you. Nobody has your smile, your eyes, your
hands, your hair, your arms and legs nobody owns your handwriting, your
voice. You’re Special.
Nobody can paint your
brush strokes. Nobody has your taste for food, or music, or dance, or
art. Nobody in the universe sees things as you do. In all time there has
never been anyone who laughs in exactly your way, and what makes you
laugh, or cry, or think may have a totally different response in
another. So…… You’re Special.
You’re different from any
other person who has ever lived in the history of the universe. You are
the only one in the whole of creation who has your particular set of
abilities. There is always someone who is better at one thing or
another. Every person is my superior in at least one way. Nobody in the
universe can reach the quality of the combination of your talents, your
feelings. Like a room full of musical instruments, some might excel in
one-way or another, but nobody can match the symphonic sound when all
played together. You’re Symphony.
Through all eternity no
one will ever walk, talk, think or do exactly like you.
You’re Special
You’re rare and in all
rarity there is enormous value and because of your great value the need
for you to imitate anyone else is absolutely wrong.
You’re
Special and it is no accident you are.
Please realise that God made you for a special purpose. He has a job for
you to do that nobody else can do as well as you can. Out of the
billions of applicants only one is qualified. Only one has the unique
and right combination of what it takes and that one is you.
YOU’RE SPECIAL
Inner
Peace (Stress Management/Relaxation Programme)
Designed by Alpha Integrative Counselling
Services
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