Solution-Focused Vs Narrative Therapy

In developing an understanding of both Solution-Focused Therapy (SFT) and Narrative Therapy (NT), a shared emphasis on the importance of language, as the basis for implementing change within the lives of clients, can be seen as a commonality between the two therapy methods. Similarly, Herbert Goldenberg and Irene Goldenberg (2013), note the resemblance of narrative therapy to solution-based therapy in that each has the goal of assisting the client with developing an “alternative story” (p. 406); however, the steps toward this restorying of lives suggest major differences in methodology.
One difference seen in these methodologies is the focus of change. As Olga Sutherland (2007) suggests in her comparison of language-focused therapeutic