Module OSW02 - Not only does solution-focused change offer some good ways of supporting clients' self compassion, my subjective perception is also that, over the years, in solution-focused practice there has been a gradual shift from supporting self-esteem to supporting self-compassion. In the past, solution-focused practitioners tended to use more direct trait compliments ("you are such a smart person") whereas nowadays they tend to use indirect process compliments ("how did you manage to accomplish that difficult task?").