Solution-Focused Therapy
Solution-focused therapy is a behavior modification measure that focuses on the future-oriented or goal-oriented approach to behavior change or solving problems in people. In this case, the focus is directed to searching for the solution to a situation rather than focusing on the problem where they devise alternative measures to dealing with the problem at hand. In the attempt to solve the problem, the person adopts a different perspective to look at a specific situation where it helps deepen a person's understanding of their problem and the consequences of the solution. The situation calls for an alternative means of stimulating the increase in the activities he is doing but using a different wise from the previous case to be more goal-oriented. As the irregular heartbeat characterizes the condition, the perceptive adopted should ensure the body does not over-exercise. It will have more effects than the advantages in reducing the chances of getting the stroke again.
The patient with ischemic stroke requires them to have exercise, but it’s limited to the wailing around to increase blood flow reduce the reoccurrence of the condition. In this case, the only approach applicable is Solution Focused Therapy, where the patient is supposed to focus on the exercise's goal and not the disease itself. In doing so, they develop a different perspective on the condition while applying different exercises where the increase of activeness is the goal. According to The American Heart Association the first few months of stroke, the patient is supposed to take twenty minutes of anaerobic exercise where it should be done three to seven times a week to reduce the stroke's recurrence. The patient needs to work according to the goals of maintaining a healthy body in the individual and ensure that he does not overexercise.
In identifying the right way to increase the patient's activity, the patient must avail the information about himself in terms of what is happening within him. In doing so, I will get the incite of the patient's goals related to the exercises through communication with him to understand what is important to him, in theory, the application of strength-based approach where the resilience of the patient is built on his strengths and resources that they demonstrate to enhance the change. The self's resources are extracted through the therapeutic means where the therapist enquires about the clients' experience, thus determining the strength to work on in the behavior’s enhancement. In these cases, basic assumptions are made about the self in determining the exercise changes where the exercise should increase the activity in the individual’s life.
The key element in Solution Focused Therapy is client-centered-based therapy to enable people to build their everyday lives by exploring individual life and how they would want it to be like. Miracle questions encourage individuals to stop thinking about what they cannot achieve and start living if a miracle occurs. In this case, it helps take the mind of the problem at hand and starts the case where the problem does not exist (Northcott, et al., 2019). This helps describe the solution differently according to the patients' view, where they give different views on how to deal with the situation differently. The different picture helps form a different way of living where the solution is made using these different ways. In this case, the therapist helps the client draw the picture by asking probing question of the picture in the minds of the patient helping them have a clear picture of the situation.
The solution-focused theory applies the use of three keys in developing behaviors where behaviors are considered constant and certain. In attaining the behavior, one has to have the client set the goals they want to meet by the end of the session. In this, the clients set the goal of the changes they intend to make to make the process goal-oriented to focus on what they want to achieve as it facilitates solution building. In doing so, they focus on what is working, especially defined when the problem is less severe, allowing them to focus on the solution rather than the problem itself; this permits strength, skill, and resources of an individual enabling the solution to become more visible. This allows the solution to take a step-by-side approach to the solution by using exception scaling questions that allow the client to express their emotion and thought about exception amplifying the client’s strength. This allows the client in the future to build solutions based on the success of the past.
The physical therapist's availability would have opened up the idea of the various physical exercises that are anaerobic thus useful to the patient. The therapist can help the client on the training procedure concerning the client's body condition, thus maintaining physical condition to allow the follow of blood freely and promote physical fitness. They are essential as they can offer clinical diagnosis to prepare a patient's plan concerning the condition requirement and the body condition.
References
Northcott, S., Simpson, A., Thomas, S. A., Hirani, S. P., Flood, C., & Hilari, K. (2019). SOlution Focused brief therapy In post-stroke Aphasia (SOFIA.
