Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) is a future-focused, goal-directed treatment method. Unlike approaches that focus on the issues that brought clients to seek therapy, SFBT concentrates on leveraging the client’s strengths to cultivate solutions. Similarly, Motivational Interviewing (MI) is a collaborative, empathetic technique that has most recently been defined as “a particular way of talking with people about change and growth to strengthen their own motivation and commitment.”

Both SFBT and MI represent a shift in the field—a movement towards harnessing the power of the client’s own resources and aspirations to facilitate meaningful and lasting change. Research has shown that professionals can effectively integrate these two approaches to provide a more comprehensive, client-centered, and strengths-based approach to supporting clients in their change process. But how exactly is this integration achieved in practice?

In this hour-long webinar conversation, Dee-Dee Stout offers a brief overview of how MI and SFBT can be integrated by professionals into a strategy for ensuring the most lasting change among clients in the shortest amount of time. Dee-Dee expertly addresses key considerations, such as the therapist’s role, the focus of the conversation, and the strategic use of scaling questions. Her insights equip attendees with a basic understanding of the approach and how it can be tailored to diverse clinical settings and populations.