1st Edition
Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Its Effective Use in Agency Settings
260 Pages
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Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
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Re-energize your practice! Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Its Effective Use in Agency Settings chronicles the lessons learned when a substance abuse counseling program switches its theoretical orientation from problem-focused to solution-focused. The book details the technical aspects of the changeover (theory, techniques, interventions, politics, and team design) as well as the personal... Read more
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Why Change an Entire Agency’s Focus to Solution-Focused Therapy?
- What to Expect from This Book
- Chapter 1. The Solution-Focused Basics
- Solution-Focused Therapy Basics
- The Miracle Question
- Exception Questions
- A Brief History of Scaling
- Scaling Questions
- Difference Questions
- Relationship Questions
- Compliments As Interventions
- The Rewards of Becoming Solution Focused
- Summary
- Chapter 2. Individual Session Road Map
- Chips on Their Shoulders
- Individual Session Map
- Summary
- Chapter 3. Solution-Focused Groups
- The Effects of Clients’ Past Problem-Oriented Group Experiences
- Group Session Map
- The Importance of Cotherapy in Groups
- Summary
- Chapter 4. Many Miracles: Adaptations and Applications of the Miracle Question
- Beware of the Perils of Problem Solving
- Principles Behind the Miracle Question
- Applying the Miracle Question Elements
- Summary
- Chapter 5. Sustaining the Miracle
- Changing the Focus
- Emergency Roadside Repair Kit
- Relapse Prevention with Reluctant Clients
- When to Use the Emergency Roadside Repair Kit
- Summary
- Chapter 6. “This Is Stupid, I Don’t Need This, and I Don’t Want to Be Here”: Working with Adolescents
- The Paradoxical Population
- Challenging Our Old Assumptions About Adolescents
- Limit Setting and the Solution-Focused Approach
- Relational Questions with Adolescents
- Relational Questions As a Way to Work with Families
- Scaling and Therapeutic Analogies to Kindle Hope
- Working with Younger Children
- Summary
- Chapter 7. The Art of Speaking “French”: Interagency Diplomacy
- Working with Other Professionals
- Solution-Focused Case Management
- Identifying Evidence of a Client’s Potential for Success
- Solution-Focused Treatment Plans
- Termination
- How Client Charts Can be Helpful to Solution-Focused Therapists
- Viewing Governing Agencies As Clients
- Summary
- Chapter 8. Solution-Focused Supervision: Leading from One Step Behind
- Why Do Solution-Focused Supervision?
- Adapting Solution-Focused Skills to a Supervisory Context
- The Practical Structure of Solution-Focused Supervision
- Principles for Initiating Solution-Focused Supervision in an Established Agency
- Getting Staff to Stay
- Summary
- Chapter 9. Maintaining the Team’s Miracle: Observations from Our Solution-Focused Team
- The Impact of Our Supervision
- Team Norms
- Maintaining the Team Miracle
- Summary
- Chapter 10. Case Examples of Clients Who Changed Their Lives and Our Way of Working
- A Case of Quiet Rebellion
- Jim
- Tracy
- Julie
- Connie
- Kerry
- Elaine
- Summary
- Epilogue: The Parable of the Nomads
- Appendix. Reflections from Our Solution-Focused Treatment Team
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Biography
Teri Pichot, Yvonne M Dolan
