be best, because clients will always have things to say that videos or lectures could never teach a therapist how to respond to, without knowing the client first. When clients receive empathy from their therapists, they usually start to feel better in a short time. Many theorists argue how empathy helps in the clients feeling better about themselves (Watson et al, 2014). We all want to feel better about ourselves, so it would be worthwhile to have someone to talk to that cares how we are feeling, and to have positive feedback from this person. It is important that a solution to loss of empathy from clients be found for them to have successful outcomes, for therapists to feel more positive about what they do, and for counseling agencies to prosper in the future. When it comes to helping therapists keep empathy for clients, a possible solution to this problem could be a strategy called "Solution-focused therapy." According …show more content…
One Johnny Bass Publishers, Handbook of Solution-focused brief therapy, says in their article, (Beyebach, Morejon, Palenzuela, & Rodriguez-Arias, 1996), "the differences between client dropouts and continuance seem to be related to the information-gathering phase." Basically, they are saying that clients that drop out more are shown from data during the question and answer phase of therapy, and it was not seen in those that continued therapy. It may be true that clients tend to drop out of therapy due to being questioned, but according to Miller, (1994), clients that this therapy is used on had more rapid client change, and those that did not drop out, had a higher degree of satisfaction (p.468). It is obvious that it is more important to have higher satisfaction and successful client outcomes, so solution-focused brief therapy is by far the best way to