Doing what works in brief therapy : a strategic solution focused approach /

This book is both a set of procedures for the therapist and a philosophy one that is shared with clients and one that guides the work of the therapist. This second edition continues its excellence in offering clinicians a guide to doing what works in brief therapy- for whom, and when and how to use...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Quick, Ellen Kaufman
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Academic Press, 2008.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Practical resources for the mental health professional.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Origins, Additional Perspectives, and the Model;
  • Clarifying the Problem: "What's the Trouble?";
  • Amplifying the Solution: Variations on the Miracle Question;
  • Evaluating Attempted Solutions: If It Doesn't Work, Do Something Different; Designing the Intervention: Validation, Compliment, Suggestion;
  • You Can Take it With You: "What Do You Want to Remember?";
  • Therapist Decisions: Clarifying, Amplifying or Interrupting;
  • Coping with Difficult Situations;
  • Brief Therapy: Problems and Solutions in Managed Care;
  • Medication and the Model;
  • Problems and Solutions with Couples;
  • "Doing What Works" Group Therapy;
  • Doing What Works and Changing What Doesn't As a Transtheoretical Perspective; Case Examples and Excerpts from Single-Session, Brief, and Intermittent Therapy.