Enhancing Change Process in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy by Utilizing Couple Enactments

Solution building is a central change process utilized in solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) to focus on intrinsic abilities and strengths of clients in order to effect change. Enactments, defined as couple-focused interaction coached by the therapist, have been identified as a core therapeutic skill designed to address issues within the natural context of the couple relationship, thereby yielding increased couple self-reliance and interactional confidence. Although the solution-building process as carried out in SFBT does not discourage the making of new meaning through direct couple interaction, no scholarly work has addressed the idea of enhancing the solution-building process by utilizing an enactment framework. This article aims to integrate the processes of solution building and enactments by providing a conceptual justification and an operational description.