ABSTRACT
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, which enables people to make changes in their lives quickly and effectively. It covers:
- The history and background to solution focused practice
- The philosophical underpinnings of the approach
- Techniques and practices
- Specific applications to work with children and adolescents, (including school-based work) families, and adults
- How to deal with difficult situations
- 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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |2 pages
Part 1 BACKGROUND
chapter |3 pages
What is Solution Focused Brief Therapy?
chapter |2 pages
The Brief Family Therapy Center: the fi rst phase
chapter |2 pages
The Brief Family Therapy Center: the second phase
chapter |2 pages
Solution Focused Brief Therapy today
chapter |1 pages
Philosophical underpinnings: constructivism
chapter |2 pages
Assumptions in Solution Focused Brief Therapy
chapter |4 pages
The client–therapist relationship
chapter |2 pages
The evidence that Solution Focused Brief Therapy works
chapter |2 pages
How brief is brief'?
chapter |4 pages
Summary: the structure of solution focused sessions
part |2 pages
Part 2 FEATURES OF SOLUTION FOCUSED INTERVIEWING
chapter |1 pages
Ideas about therapeutic conversation
chapter |2 pages
Choosing the next question
chapter |3 pages
Acknowledgement and possibility
chapter |2 pages
Compliments
chapter |2 pages
Deciding who to meet with
part |2 pages
Part 3 GETTING STARTED
chapter |3 pages
Problem-free talk
chapter |2 pages
Identifying resources
chapter |2 pages
Constructive histories
chapter |3 pages
Pre-meeting change
part |2 pages
Part 4 ESTABLISHING A CONTRACT
chapter |2 pages
Finding out the client’s best hopes from the work
chapter |2 pages
The ‘contract’: a joint project
chapter |3 pages
The difference between outcome and process
chapter |2 pages
The ‘Great Instead’
chapter |2 pages
When the client’s hope is beyond the therapist’s remit
chapter |3 pages
When the client has been sent
chapter |2 pages
Building a contract with young people
chapter |2 pages
When the client says ‘don’t know’
chapter |3 pages
When the client’s hopes appear to be unrealistic
chapter |2 pages
What if there is a situation of risk?
chapter |3 pages
When the practitioner is a gatekeeper to a resource
chapter |2 pages
What if we fail to develop a joint project?
part |2 pages
Part 5 THE CLIENT’S PREFERRED FUTURE
chapter |2 pages
Preferred futures: the ‘Tomorrow Question’
chapter |1 pages
Distant futures
chapter |3 pages
Broadening and detailing
part |2 pages
Part 6 WHEN HAS IT ALREADY HAPPENED? INSTANCES OF SUCCESS
chapter |2 pages
Exceptions
chapter |2 pages
Instances of the future already happening
chapter |3 pages
Lists
chapter |1 pages
No instances, no exceptions
part |2 pages
Part 7 MEASURING PROGRESS: USING SCALE QUESTIONS
chapter |2 pages
Scale questions: the evaluation of progress
chapter |2 pages
Designating the ‘0’ on the scale
chapter |2 pages
Different scales
chapter |2 pages
Successes in the past
chapter |1 pages
What is good enough?
chapter |1 pages
Moving up the scale
chapter |2 pages
Signs or steps
chapter |2 pages
What if the client says they are at ‘0’?
chapter |2 pages
When the client’s rating seems unrealistic
part |2 pages
Part 8 COPING QUESTIONS: WHEN TIMES ARE TOUGH
chapter |2 pages
Handling diffi cult situations, including bereavement
chapter |2 pages
Stopping things from getting worse
part |2 pages
Part 9 ENDING SESSIONS
chapter |2 pages
Thinking pause
chapter |2 pages
Acknowledgement and appreciation
chapter |2 pages
Making suggestions
chapter |2 pages
Making the next appointment
part |2 pages
Part 10 CONDUCTING FOLLOW-UP SESSIONS
chapter |1 pages
What is better?
chapter |3 pages
Amplifying the progress made
chapter |2 pages
Strategy questions
chapter |2 pages
Identity questions
chapter |2 pages
When the client says things are the same
chapter |2 pages
When the client says things are worse
part |2 pages
Part 11 ENDING THE WORK
chapter |2 pages
Maintaining progress
chapter |2 pages
What if there is no progress?
part |2 pages
Part 12 ASSESSMENT AND SAFEGUARDING
chapter |2 pages
Assessment
chapter |2 pages
Safeguarding
part |2 pages
Part 13 CHILDREN, FAMILIES, SCHOOLS, AND GROUPWORK
chapter |2 pages
Children
chapter |2 pages
Adolescents
chapter |2 pages
Family work
chapter |1 pages
Scales in family work
chapter |3 pages
Couples work
chapter |2 pages
In the school
chapter |3 pages
Schools: individual work
chapter |2 pages
Schools: the WOWW project
chapter |3 pages
Groupwork
part |2 pages
Part 14 WORK WITH ADULTS
chapter |2 pages
Homelessness
chapter |2 pages
Alzheimer’s
chapter |2 pages
Learning diffi culties
chapter |2 pages
Substance misuse
chapter |2 pages
Mental health
chapter |4 pages
Trauma and abuse
part |2 pages
Part 15 SUPERVISION, COACHING, AND ORGANIZATIONAL APPLICATIONS
chapter |2 pages
Supervision
chapter |2 pages
Team supervision
chapter |2 pages
Coaching
chapter |3 pages
Mentoring
chapter |2 pages
Team coaching 224
chapter |3 pages
Leadership
part |2 pages
Part 16 FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS