Prevention, solution-focused therapy, and the illusion of mental disorders

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• 作者：Jefferson M. Fish
• 关键词：Prevention of mental illness ; Brief therapy ; Solution-focused therapy ; Response expectancy ; Positive expectancy
• 刊名：Applied and Preventive Psychology
• 出版年：1996
• 出版时间：Winter 1996
• 年：1996
• 卷：5
• 期：1
• 页码：37-40
• 全文大小：445 K

文摘

Therapy theorists' criticism of the lack of specific mechanisms in the prevention of mental disorders is examined from the perspective of solution-focused therapy (SFT), which argues that solutions can be unrelated to problems, and that it is not even necessary to know what a problem is in order to solve it. It is suggested that the shift of attention from problems to solutions in SFT offers a conceptual framework within which the criticism is not relevant, and from which theorists of therapy and prevention can share a common outlook. This outlook involves a focus on encouraging productive, useful, positive behavior, with a corresponding deemphasis on an skepticism about current conceptualizations of mental disorders.