Solution-focused approaches in adult mental health research: A conceptual literature review and narrative synthesis.

ABSTRACT: Solution-focused approaches are one approach to treatment used in a wide variety of settings in modern mental healthcare services. As yet, there has been no overall synthesis of how this approach is understood in the adult mental health literature. This conceptual review aimed to synthesize the ways that solution-focused approaches have been conceptualized and understood, within the adult mental health literature, in the five decades since their conception. A systematic search followed by multiple techniques from the narrative synthesis approach were used to develop a conceptual framework of the extracted data. Fifty-six papers published between 1993 and 2019 were included in the review. These papers spanned a variety of clinical contexts and countries, but despite this the underlying key

SUBMITTER: Jerome L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10098109 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature