Doing Something Different Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Practices

Section One: Interventions and Practices

1. The Optimal Zone Scale: Coert Visser

2. 7-Eleven: Frank Thomas

3. The Solution Focus: A Universal Tool, Carole Waskett

4. Scaling Agency with Clients when they Begin Taking Antidepressants, Frank Thomas

5. Using Scaling to Assess Couple Readiness for Therapy, Lee Shilts

6. Solution-Focused Assessment, Clare Scott

7. A Convergent Couple Scale, Paul Hackett, Kevin Ball

8. Dis-ease Free, Kathryn C. Shafer

9. A Colorful Solution-Focused Game, Tomasz Switek

10. "Visitor," "Complainant," "Customer" Revisited, Philip B. Ziegler

11. Appreciating What Works in the National Health Service, Carole Waskett

12. Sparkling Moment, Evan George

13. A Singing Miracle, Mark Mitchell

14. A Clinical Exercise: Common Ground, Heather Fiske

15. Using Scales with Multiple Goals, Coert Visser

16. Focus on Microprogression in Solution-Focused Conflict Resolution, Gwenda Schlundt Bodien

17. Reducing Personnel Turnover Rate from 50% to 10%, Paolo Terni

18. Opening for Brief Coaching Sessions, Paolo Terni

19. A Solution-Focused HR Professional, Gwenda Schlundt Bodien

20. Resiliency and Change, Liselotte Baeijaert, Anton Stellamans

21. Coaching for Resilience, Liselotte Baeijaert, Anton Stellamans

22. Strength-Based School Meetings, Jay Trenhaile

23. Responding to Bullying in Primary Schools, Sue Young

24. Solution Focus in UK School -- One Therapist's Practice, Paul Avard

25. Extreme Listening: Taught by People with Aspergers Syndrome, Vicky Bliss

26. Big Brother, Lyndsey Taylor

27. Engaging the Imagination, Rob Black

28. Breaking Down Barriers, Paul Avard

29. Working with Chaotic Families, Lyndsey Taylor

30. Paper, Scissors, Stone: An Interactive Family Scale, Paul Hackett

31. Diabetes Education and Support Group: A Different Conversation, Tommie V. Boyd, Yulia Watters

Section Two: Training

32. How Do People Learn SFBT?, Tomasz Switek

33. A Goal-Setting Questionnaire, Brenda Zalter

34. The Miracle Question, Brenda Zalter

35. Strength Identification, Lorenn Walker

36. Solution-Focused Dominoes, Tomasz Switek

37. Quotable Quotes, Brenda Zalter

38. E-Mail from the Future Supervision, Steve Freeman

39. The Artful Diagnostician, Bruce Gorden

40. Circle Exercise, Arnoud Huibers

41. TAKEN DRUGS, Ian Johnsen

42. Stuck in Isomorphism and Coaxing the Way Out: Via Less Dolorosa, Bruce Gorden

43. Scaling Practice, Heather Fiske

44. A 10-Minue Solution-Focused Interview Training Exercise, Heather Fiske

45. Workplace Training Exercises, Heather Fiske

46. Four Constructive Conversations, Heather Fiske

47. Description, Reflection, Speculation (DRS), Ian Johnsen

48. The Worst Things You Could Ever Hear in a Therapy Hour, Bruce Gorden

49. Evidence-Based Supervision: Identifying Successful Moments in SFBT, Sara A. Smock

50. Training Therapists for SFBT Group Work: A Multidimensional Approach, Adam S. Froerer, Sara A. Smock

51. Psychiatry Should Be a Parenthesis in People's Lives, Harry Korman

52. When the Client Doesn't Follow the Script, Joel Simon

53. Semaphore, Metaphor...Two-by-Four, Frank Thomas

54. Certificate of Competence, John Wheeler

55. Toolbox for Work-Life Balance, Brenda Zalter

Section Three: Theory

56. Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and Watercolours, Paul Avard

57. Neuroscience and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Or How SFBT Can Change the Brain, Philip B. Ziegler

58. Change We Can Believe In, Paolo Terni

Section Four: Stories, Poetry, Quotes, Songs, Outrageous Moments in Therapy, Solution-Focused Quotes, and a Bibliography

59. Friday Night Service, Harriet Kiviat

60. Michelangelo's Secret Weapon, Carole Waskett

61. Creating Calm Out of Chaos: Using Solution-Focused Techniques with Family Members, Harriet Kiviat

62. Insoo, Jay Trenhaile

63. The Damn Dog, Thorana Nelson

64. Poems, Dvorah Simon

65. Solution-Focused Haikus, Frank Thomas

66. Solution-Focused Song Titles, Frank Thomas

67. Favorite Questions, Quotes, and Ideas, Various Contributors

68. Quotes that Sit well with Solution-Focused Approaches, Various Contributors

Section Five: Outrageous Moments in Therapy

69. An Unusual and True Answer to the Miracle Question, Jeff Change

70. Liar, Liar, Philip B. Ziegler

71. F**k-Off Therapy, Dvorah Simon

72. T-Shirt, Paul Hackett

73. Over-Developed Emotions, Chris Iveson

74. Outrageous Moments in Therapy, Paul Hanton

Section Six: Resources

75. Solution-Focused Quotes, Various Contributors

76. Contributions of Steve de Shazer (1940-2005) to Brief Family Therapy, Janet Campbell

Biography

Thorana Nelson, PhD, has been practicing and teaching family therapy for over 25 years. She is currently a Professor of family therapy in the department of Family, Consumer, and Human Development at Utah State University; a clinical member and approved supervisor of AAMFT; a founding member and member of the Board of Directors of the Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Association; and an author and co-editor of several books.

"Doing Something Different is something delightfully different. For those who consider solution-focused therapy an over-simplistic therapy-by-numbers, it could be a revelation. Experienced practitioners, lots of them, working in a wide range of settings, demonstrate the high level of creativity the approach can inspire in therapists and in clients." - Brian Cade, MFT, co-author, A Brief Guide to Brief Therapy

"Wide-ranging in scope and practical in application. This exciting book is a solution-focused treasure chest, chock-full of fresh, innovative ideas that therapists, trainers, supervisors, and managers will want to apply to their practice immediately. I highly recommend this book for those new to solution-focused brief therapy and experienced practitioners as well!" - Jim Duvall, Editor, Journal of Systemic Therapy; Director of Training, The Hincks-Dellcrest Institute, Toronto, Ontario

"This book shows Solution-focused Brief Therapy to be thriving, and it shows that it can fit many client groups and care agencies well. It also shows us the personal interpretations and local dialects used by many of its exponents, which are subtly altering it. Readers can go to it for sound new ideas for their practice, but--departing from the behavioural emphasis of the approach--the different ways of thinking are just as captivating. ...a good read for experienced professionals." - Robert Cumming, British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, Vol. 39, No. 3, June 2011

"The structure of [this book] is emblematic of the solution-focused approach. Each of the 76 chapters presents something different from the previous one; interventions, interesting quotes, anecdotes, case studies, diagrams, transcripts, tips and more are offered by 42 international contributors. The usefulness of creative practice in order to discover 'what works' is the theme which unifies the book. It is remarkable that although the chapters of the book are so colourful and the backgrounds of the contributors so diverse, the book manages to retain such a sense of coherence." -Kirsty Entwistle, University College London in Journal of Mental Health, February 2012