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Negotiating goals with patients is an essential skill in solution-focused therapy. Solution-focused therapy concentrates intensely on developing well-formed goals with patients(De Jong and Miller 1995). In all forms of therapy, both the clinician and the patient work on establishing criteria that tell them when they have succeeded and can end therapy. This necessitates collaboratively developing criteria for success. It is one thing to know where you don’t want to be, but quite another to know where you want to go instead. Negotiating goals with patients helps define the direction of treatment, determines whether treatment is successful, and strengthens the treatment alliance.
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