Simply Focus Podcast: The Good Life Approach - Your Weekly Podcast With The Little Extra Solution Focus For Your Daily Life!

Dr. Thorana Nelson about systems thinking, Solution Focus, and families. In today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Thorana Nelson, Professor Emerita of Utah State University about what fascinates her with Solution Focused Brief Therapy with families and how she came up with the idea of writing a book about SF and families. We explore the interactional view and the paradigm of systems thinking, the differences between "systemic theories“ as a coaching or therapy model and "systems thinking“ as a mindset, and the difference between deriving interventions from theory versus deriving interventions from practice with the client. Thorana Nelson describes systems thinking and the fit with Solution Focus or how Solution Focus is very systemic, how she works in a systemic and Solution Focused way, and how the different interactions in the therapy room can be used in other situations. She mentions the focus on reciprocal interactions that she would like Solution Focused practitioners to do more of and how solution focused q