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.

part |32 pages

Background

chapter |2 pages

How brief is ‘brief'?

part |12 pages

Features of Solution Focused Interviewing

part |13 pages

Getting Started

part |10 pages

When Has it Already Happened? Instances of Success

chapter |2 pages

Exceptions

chapter |3 pages

Lists

part |18 pages

Measuring Progress: Using Scale Questions

part |5 pages

Coping Questions: When Times are Tough

part |10 pages

Ending Sessions

chapter |2 pages

Thinking pause

chapter |2 pages

Making suggestions

part |14 pages

Conducting Follow-Up Sessions

part |6 pages

Ending the Work

chapter |2 pages

Maintaining progress

part |6 pages

Assessment and Safeguarding

chapter |2 pages

Assessment

chapter |2 pages

Safeguarding

part |21 pages

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 |2 pages

Groupwork

part |15 pages

Work With Adults

chapter |2 pages

Homelessness

chapter |2 pages

Alzheimer's

chapter |2 pages

Learning difficulties

chapter |2 pages

Substance misuse

chapter |2 pages

Mental health

chapter |3 pages

Trauma and abuse

part |15 pages

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

chapter |2 pages

Leadership