Planning for Research: A Guide for the Helping Professions; and
                        Implementing the Research Plan: A Guide for the Helping Professions.

No authorship indicated

doi:10.1037/030966

Planning for Research: A Guide for the Helping Professions; and Implementing the Research Plan: A Guide for the Helping Professions.

Contemporary Psychology ◽

10.1037/030966 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 34 (7) ◽

pp. 711-711

Author(s):

No authorship indicated

Keyword(s):

Helping Professions ◽

Research Plan

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Principles of Solution Focused Therapy and Their Application to Audiology

Perspectives on Public Health Issues Related to Hearing and Balance ◽

10.1044/phi15.1.27 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 27-33

Author(s):

James C. Blair

Keyword(s):

Basic Assumption ◽

Current Practice ◽

Helping Professions ◽

Patient Centered ◽

Therapy Approach ◽

Agents Of Change ◽

Centered Care ◽

Client Centered Therapy ◽

Solution Focused ◽

Solution Focused Therapy

The concept of client-centered therapy (Rogers, 1951) has influenced many professions to refocus their treatment of clients from assessment outcomes to the person who uses the information from this assessment. The term adopted for use in the professions of Communication Sciences and Disorders and encouraged by The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) is patient-centered care, with the goal of helping professions, like audiology, focus more centrally on the patient. The purpose of this paper is to examine some of the principles used in a patient-centered therapy approach first described by de Shazer (1985) named Solution-Focused Therapy and how these principles might apply to the practice of audiology. The basic assumption behind this model is that people are the agents of change and the professional is there to help guide and enable clients to make the change the client wants to make. This model then is focused on solutions, not on the problems. It is postulated that by using the assumptions in this model audiologists will be more effective in a shorter time than current practice may allow.

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