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  • Recreating Partnership

    Recreating Partnership

    by Phillip Ziegler and Toby Hille

    In their solution-oriented, competency-based approach to couples therapy, Phillip Ziegler and Tobey Hiller answer this question. In Recreating Partnership, an innovative, theoretically sound, and practical handbook for clinicians, Ziegler and Hiller present a bold and clinically useful concept, the good story/bad story dichotomy. The book shows clinicians how to use this narrative concept in conducting effective and efficient relationship therapy that will help couples build solutions collaboratively, invigorate partnership, and thrive, each in their own unique ways. The book covers issues such as establishing rapport with antagonistic partners; developing therapeutic goals;...

  • Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques

    Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques

    by Harvey Ratner, Evan George, Ch

    Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques provides a concise and jargon-free guide to the thinking and practice of this exciting approach, enabling people to make changes in their lives quickly and effectively.  *This book covers:* This history and background to solution focused practice The philosophical underpinnings of the approach Dealing with difficult situations: Specific applications to children, adolescents, families and schools Organisational applications including supervision, coaching and leadership. Frequently asked questions  This book is an invaluable resource for all therapists and counsellors, whether in training or practice....

  • Solution-Focused Play Therapy. A Strengths-Based Clinical Approach to Play Therapy

    Solution-Focused Play Therapy. A Strengths-Based Clinical Approach to Play Therapy

    by Elizabeth Kjellstrand Hartwig

    Solution-Focused Play Therapy is an essential text that blends the process of play therapy with solution-focused therapy. With a focus on child strengths and resources, this book identifies key concepts and principles in solution-focused play therapy (SFPT). The author provides neurobiological and developmental support for SFPT and guidance on how practitioners can transition from using a non-directive approach to a more directive and activity-based approach based on the developmental needs of the child. Chapters describe the 12 basic skills needed for employing this approach with children of all ages and their...

  • The Therapist's Notebook for Families

    The Therapist's Notebook for Families

    by Bill Bertolino

    *Solution-Oriented Exercises for Working With Parents, Children, and Adolescents, 2nd Edition* The Therapist’s Notebook for Families, Second Edition, provides 72 solution-oriented activities for an array of challenging problems faced by mental health professionals when working with clients. The Therapist's Notebook offers clear, practical, easy-to-use exercises to help therapists work effectively and creatively with parents, adolescents, children, and families. Its solution-focused perspective provides a foundation based on collaboration, the utilization of client strengths, and the creation of possibilities to facilitate present and future change. The book is arranged in five parts, with 15...

  • Working with Children and Teenagers Using Solution Focused Approaches

    Working with Children and Teenagers Using Solution Focused Approaches

    by Judith Milner & Jackie Bateman

    Solution focused approaches offer proven ways of helping children overcome a whole range of difficulties, from academic problems to mental health issues, by helping them to identify their strengths and achievements. Based on solution focused practice principles, this book illustrates communication skills and playful techniques for working with all children and young people, regardless of any health, learning or development need. It demonstrates how the approach can capture children's views, wishes and worries, and can assist them in identifying their strengths and abilities. The approach encourages positive decision-making, and helps children...

  • Working with Violence and Confrontation Using Solution Focused Approaches: Creative Practice with Children, Young People and Adults

    Working with Violence and Confrontation Using Solution Focused Approaches: Creative Practice with Children, Young People and Adults

    by Judith Milner, Steve Myers

    An authoritative, interdisciplinary book which outlines how solution-focused practice is particularly effective in addressing violent behaviour in clients and service users, encompassing work with both adults and children. Solution-focused approaches have been used successfully with a range of violent behaviours from school-based bullying to severe domestic violence, as well as with victims of violence. Solution-focused approaches hold people accountable for building solutions to their violent behaviour. The book shows how to engage clients in solution talk as opposed to problem talk, set useful goals and help clients to develop new behaviours....

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