1st Edition

Becoming Miracle Workers Language and Learning in Brief Therapy

By Gale Miller Copyright 1997
252 Pages
by Routledge

237 Pages
by Routledge

237 Pages
by Routledge

Brief therapy is a postmodern treatment mode that treats problems as social constructions, encouraging those seeking treatment to replace personal troubles (negative stories) with new problem-solving skills (positive stories). The significant differences discussed in this book do not involve sociologists and brief therapists. The differences are between brief therapists, on the one hand, and... Read more
1: Opening Moves; I: Contexts of Brief Therapy; 2: Encountering Brief Therapy; 3: Troubles as Systems Problems; 4: Troubles as Language Games; II: Workings of Brief Therapy; 5: Constructing Ecosystemic Problems; 6: Constructing Change in Ecosystemic Brief Therapy; 7: Teamwork in Ecosystemic Brief Therapy; 8: Constructing and Delivering Ecosystemic Interventions; 9: Constructing Solutions in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy; III: Implications of Brief Therapy; 10: Final Messages

Biography

Gale Miller