1 online resource (xi, 254 pages)

"Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques provides a concise and jargon-free guide to the thinking and practice of this exciting approach, enabling people to make changes in their lives quickly and effectively. It covers: - This history and background to solution focused practice - The philosophical underpinnings of the approach - Dealing with difficult situations - Specific applications to children, adolescents, families, and schools - Organisational applications including supervision, coaching and leadership. - Frequently asked questions This book is an invaluable resource for all therapists and counsellors, whether in training or practice. It will also be essential for any professional whose job it is to help people make changes in their lives, and will therefore be of interest to social workers, probation officers, psychiatric staff, doctors, and teachers, as well as those working in organisations as coaches and managers"--

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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Part 1 BACKGROUND; 1 What is Solution Focused Brief Therapy?; 2 The origins of Solution Focused Brief Therapy (1): Milton Erickson; 3 Origins (2): family therapy and the Brief Therapy Center at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto; 4 Origins (3): the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee and the birth of a new approach; 5 The Brief Family Therapy Center: the first phase; 6 The Brief Family Therapy Center: the second phase; 7 Solution Focused Brief Therapy today; 8 Philosophical underpinnings: constructivism

9 Philosophical underpinnings: Wittgenstein, language, and social constructionism10 Assumptions in Solution Focused Brief Therapy; 11 The client-therapist relationship; 12 The evidence that Solution Focused Brief Therapy works; 13 How brief is brief'?; 14 Summary: the structure of solution focused sessions; Part 2 FEATURES OF SOLUTION FOCUSED INTERVIEWING; 15 Ideas about therapeutic conversation; 16 Choosing the next question; 17 Acknowledgement and possibility; 18 Compliments; 19 Deciding who to meet with; Part 3 GETTING STARTED; 20 Problem-free talk; 21 Identifying resources

22 Listening with a constructive ear: what the client can do, not what they cannot do23 Constructive histories; 24 Pre-meeting change; Part 4 ESTABLISHING A CONTRACT; 25 Finding out the client's best hopes from the work; 26 The 'contract': a joint project; 27 The difference between outcome and process; 28 The 'Great Instead'; 29 When the client's hope is beyond the therapist's remit; 30 When the client has been sent; 31 Building a contract with young people; 32 When the client says 'don't know'; 33 When the client's hopes appear to be unrealistic; 34 What if there is a situation of risk?

35 When the practitioner is a gatekeeper to a resource36 What if we fail to develop a joint project?; Part 5 THE CLIENT'S PREFERRED FUTURE; 37 Preferred futures: the 'Tomorrow Question'; 38 Distant futures; 39 The qualities of well-described preferred futures: the client's perspective; 40 The qualities of well-described preferred futures: other person perspectives; 41 Broadening and detailing; Part 6 WHEN HAS IT ALREADY HAPPENED? INSTANCES OF SUCCESS; 42 Exceptions; 43 Instances of the future already happening; 44 Lists; 45 No instances, no exceptions

Part 7 MEASURING PROGRESS: USING SCALE QUESTIONS46 Scale questions: the evaluation of progress; 47 Designating the '0' on the scale; 48 Different scales; 49 Successes in the past; 50 What is good enough?; 51 Moving up the scale; 52 Signs or steps; 53 What if the client says they are at '0'?; 54 When the client's rating seems unrealistic; Part 8 COPING QUESTIONS: WHEN TIMES ARE TOUGH; 55 Handling difficult situations, including bereavement; 56 Stopping things from getting worse; Part 9 ENDING SESSIONS; 57 Thinking pause; 58 Acknowledgement and appreciation; 59 Making suggestions

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