What It Captures
It captures observable behaviors, interactions, and signs in daily life that describe the client's preferred future.
Preferred Future Description for solution-focused practice
Preferred Future Description is an SFBT tool for practitioners and clients. It helps them translate a hoped-for change into concrete behaviors, interactions, and signs the client or others could notice in everyday life.
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Tool guide
Learn more about this tool
Use this background section to understand when the tool fits, how practitioners use it, and what to consider before sharing it with clients.
How It Supports Review
Completed descriptions persist as references for later progress review and can be refined over time while preserving history.
Important Limits
It does not prescribe next steps, score goals, create treatment plans, or add unsupported dimensions.
Does the tool create a treatment plan?
No. It creates a client-described preferred-future picture, not treatment objectives or action steps.
What is required for completion?
At least one concrete observable sign is required; abstract hopes can be saved as partial and refined.
Can signs others might notice be included?
Yes. Signs others could notice can be captured when discussed, but they should not be invented or required without validation.