The Art of Solution-Focused Therapy [Paperback]

What is Solution-Focused Therapy?

Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) is a unique, goal-directed therapy aimed at helping clients regain autonomy by determining and achieving their own goals. Solution focused therapists encourage clients to focus on solutions, not problems, and help clients effectively plan how to reach their goals. Unlike other therapies, SFT holds an abiding belief in clients' abilities to know what is best for them, rather than have a therapist tell them.

Why this book?

This book not only provides an overview of the Solution Focused therapy model, its basic tenets, and theories; it also presents intimate interviews with expert practitioners-all of whom use SFT in their own practice.

To this end, the book offers a wealth of insight into the theory and practice of SFT, to help practitioners decide whether SFT is right for them and their clients. These experts offer details of their apprehensions, goals, breakthroughs, and overall experiences with the therapy. The team of expert contributors includes Eve Lipchik, Yvonne Dolan, Alasdair Macdonald, Thorana Nelson, and many more.

Questions the experts address include:

• How did you discover that SFT was the model that fit your clients' needs?
• What characteristics of this model drew you towards it?
• How has SFT impacted your personal life?
• What is it about SFT that makes it so effective?
• What are your favorite cases and how did they affect your work as a therapist?

Chapter 1: Overview of Solution-Focused Therapy
Elliott Connie

Chapter 2: Solution-Focused Therapy: Its Applications and Opportunities
Linda Metcalf

Chapter 3 - A Solution-Focused Journey
Eve Lipchik

Chapter 4 - Respectful Optimism and Satisfying Subtlety
Yvonne Dolan

Chapter 5 - Working in the Dark
Chris Iveson

Chapter 6 - The Three Hour Aha Moment
Alison Johnson

Chapter 7 - This is ME
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