Solution Focused Brief Therapy
Therapy aims at aiding clients to gain an in-depth understanding of the factors behind their challenges and offer them a solution to improve their futures. However, solution-focused therapy (SFT) does not support the consideration of the reasons behind specific symptoms and does not discuss the problem. Instead, it focuses on providing solutions. While being solution-oriented is essential and helpful to incarcerated individuals, being brief when addressing their concerns is not great. The impact of short approaches towards solutions when dealing with incarcerated persons is that they feel compelled to move on without ever addressing their problem’s causes, depth as well its complexity. Usually, incarcerated individuals may not be dealing with a single clear-cut challenge. Thus if such information is not clarified, then the therapy session becomes irrelevant, or the therapist might offer wrong interventions. Hence, labeling problems is an essential phase towards developing future-oriented solutions.
Task-Centered Model Theory on a Mezzo Level-intervention
Mezzo’s work does not focus on individuals or large societal problems. Instead, it focuses on small groups like schools, local communities, neighborhood trading centers, organizations, and religious groups. In this regard, the task-centered model theory is essential in providing psychoeducation to parents and family members visiting mentally ill incarcerated loved ones to promote positive changes in their relationship. During the visiting sessions, a psychotherapist should inform the family about the assessment logistics plus the rationale. This part of the interaction is crucial for change and thus there should be sufficient time allocated to address all the concerns. However, similar to solution-focused therapy, task-centered models are brief and consequently fail to provide adequate assessments necessary to support the family’s choices, which form the basis for the therapy session. As such, appealing to the individual family interests enhances cooperation, but the procedure can be uncomfortable as well as tedious.