Solution-Focused Brief Practice with Long-Term Clients in Mental Health Services
"I Am More Than My Label"
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Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-7890-2795-5
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 10/30/2007
- Pages: 196
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Table of Contents
- Foreword (Yvonne Dolan)
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- Chapter 2. Tools of Solution-Focused Brief Practice
- Stance
- Assumptions and Concepts
- Practices
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3. Mary, the “Borderline”
- I’m a Borderline, You Know
- Chapter 4. “I Have More of a Sound Mind Now”
- Appreciating the Ordinary
- Conversations That Make a Difference: Nadine
- A Difference That Makes a Difference
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5. “Agoraphobia” and “Me” Are Not Synonymous
- De- and Re-Construction
- Emotions in Therapy
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6. Rethinking the Medical Model
- A Different Language Game
- Solution-Building Conversations
- What Does the Patient Say?
- Psychiatric Medications
- Conclusion
- Chapter 7. Psychiatry Should Be a Parenthesis in People’s Lives
- Harry Korman
- Alasdair Macdonald
- Ralph Dahle
- Sophie Duriez
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8. Meta-Systemic Considerations of Solution-Focused Brief Approach: Using the Ideas to Implement Solution-Focused Practices in Agencies and Hospitals
- Joel’s Experiences
- Chapter 9. Philosophies that Inform Solution-Focused Brief Practice: Poststructuralism, Social Constructionism, and Language Games
- Philosophy
- Structuralism
- Poststructuralism
- Constructivism/Social Constructionism
- Language Games
- Epilogue
- References
- Index