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

The first of its kind, Doing What Works in Brief Therapy is a guidebook to strategic solution focused therapy, a model which combines the principles and techniques of the Mental Research Institute's brief strategic therapy and the Brief Family Therapy Center's solution focused therapy. The...

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Main Authors: Quick, Ellen Kaufman
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology
Published: Academic Press,
Publisher Address: San Diego :
Publication Dates: 1996.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780125696609
Summary: The first of its kind, Doing What Works in Brief Therapy is a guidebook to strategic solution focused therapy, a model which combines the principles and techniques of the Mental Research Institute's brief strategic therapy and the Brief Family Therapy Center's solution focused therapy. The book explains how the strategic emphasis on clarification of the problem and interruption of what does not work can complement and enhance the solution-focused emphasis on amplification of what does work. The text reviews the theory and presents specific treatment techniques. Case examples illustrate how t
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xvi, 244 pages)
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-237) and index.
ISBN: 9780125696609
0125696604
9780080530499
0080530494
Index Number: RC480
CLC: R749.055
Contents: The Model and Its Origins. -- 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, and Suggestion. -- Therapist Decisions: Clarifying, Amplifying, or Interrupting. -- Couples: Problems and Solutions. -- Coping with Difficult Situations. -- Medication and the Model. -- Brief Therapy: Problems and Solutions in Managed Care. -- Case Examples: Intermittent Care. -- Excerpts: Single Session Therapy. -- Excerpts
The model and its origins -- 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, and suggestion -- Therapist decisions : clarifying, amplifying, or interrupting -- Couples : problems and solutions -- Coping with difficult situations -- Medication and the model -- Brief therapy : problems and solutions in managed care -- Case examples : intermittent care -- Excerpts : single-session therapy -- Excerpts :