Brief therapy helps people focus on solutions rather than problems. The therapist asks questions thus facilitating the client by helping him to formulate solutions. The client leads the meeting by actively formulating ideas in which it can serve to improve the client's negative circumstances. This is contrary to cognitive therapy, which focuses on the client's cognitive processes (how they think about people/places/things). The therapist works with the client to help him develop alternative solutions. “Subsequently, a study demonstrated that solution-focused brief therapy demonstrated small but positive treatment effects in favor of the SFBT group on outcome measures. Only the effect size for internalized behavior problems (such as depression, anxiety, self-concept and dignity) was statistically significant ap