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?
Inhoudsopgave
‘Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
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
Tracy Todd
Chapter 8 – Monty Python Focused Therapy
Brian Cade
Chapter 9 – Acceptance, Transparency, Research: Because the Others Want to Know
Cynthia Franklin
Chapter 10 – The Evidence Base of SFT
Sara Smock
Chapter 11 – Learning With Enthusiasm
Rayya Guhl
Chapter 12 – My Encounter With the Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Model
Debbie Hogan
Chapter 13 – Learning to Pay Attention
Harry Korman
Chapter 14 – Believing With a Curious Mind
Linda Metcalf
Chapter 15 – Trust Client Strengths
Terese Steiner
Chapter 16 – A Journey Towards Solutions
Alasdair Macdonald
Chapter 17 – Using Possibilities to Remove the Box
Elliott Connie
Chapter 18 – Go Where the Clients Lead
Thorana Nelson
Chapter 19 – Becoming a Solution-Focused Purist
Ron Warner
Chapter 20: Conclusion
Elliott Connie and Linda Metcalf
Appendix – Recommended Reading List
Index
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Over de auteur
Linda Metcalf, MEd, Ph D, LMFT, LPC, is currently a Professor of Graduate Counseling Programs at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas where she created a COAMFTE accredited doctoral program in marriage and family therapy. She is past president of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and has been president of the Texas Association for Marriage and Family Therapy twice. She is the creator of the Solution Focused Schools Unlimited podcast and the free Solution Focused Connection webinar, created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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