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Physicians, and psychiatrists in particular, are in a unique and privileged position to engage patients in conversations that have incredible power to heal. Solution-focused therapy is a competency-based model that minimizes emphasis on past problems and failings and instead focuses on the patient’s strengths and prior successes. This treatment approach is in accord with the positive psychology movement that emphasizes well-being and optimal functioning instead of pathology and etiology. Positive psychology is the scientific study of positive experiences, positive individual traits, and the institutions that facilitate their development; it is a discipline concerned with well-being and optimal functioning. Positive psychology differs from the pathology- and etiology-focused medical model in that it focuses instead on resources and strengths. “It’s a build what’s strong approach supplementing a fix what’s wrong approach”(Lee Duckworth et al. 2005, p. 631). Solution-focused therapy focuses on the specifics of how to put this into practice.
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