Is O’Hanlon and Wilk’s Solution Focused Therapy Cognitive Therapy? Or “When is a Door not a Door?” Christopher Smith William Paterson University Abstract O’Hanlon and Wilk state that their model of Solution Focused Therapy is a brief, future oriented, action focused, approach that leads clients to new ways of developing solutions by talking them out of their problems. The theorists thereby maintain that irrational problem formation, based on poor epistemological presumptions, is …showed first 75 words of 4870 total…

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