Solution focused brief therapy : 100 key points and techniques

Part 1 BACKGROUND:

What is Solution Focused Brief Therapy? The origins of Solution Focused Brief Therapy rigins (2): family therapy and the Brief Therapy Center at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto Origins (3): the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee and the birth of a new approach The Brief Family Therapy Center: the first phase The Brief Family Therapy Center: the second phase Solution Focused Brief Therapy today; Philosophical underpinnings: constructivism. Philosophical underpinnings: Wittgenstein, language, and social constructionism Assumptions in Solution Focused Brief Therapy The client-therapist relationship The evidence that Solution Focused Brief Therapy works How brief is brief'? Summary: the structure of solution focused sessions Part 2 FEATURES OF SOLUTION FOCUSED INTERVIEWING: Ideas about therapeutic conversation Choosing the next question Acknowledgement and possibility Part 3 GETTING STARTED: Problem-free talk Identifying resources. Listening with a constructive ear: what the client can do, not what they cannot do Part 4 ESTABLISHING A CONTRACT: Finding out the client's best hopes from the work; The 'contract': a joint project; The difference between outcome and process; Building a contract with young people When the client says 'don't know' When the client's hopes appear to be unrealistic Part 5 THE CLIENT'S PREFERRED FUTURE: Preferred futures: the 'Tomorrow Question' Distant futures; The qualities of well-described preferred futures: the client's perspective The qualities of well-described preferred futures: other person perspectives Broadening and detailing; Part 6 WHEN HAS IT ALREADY HAPPENED? INSTANCES OF SUCCESS: Exceptions; Instances of the future already happening; Lists; 45 No instances, no exceptions. Part 7 MEASURING PROGRESS: USING SCALE QUESTIONS

Designating the '0' on the scale; 48 Different scales Acknowledgement and appreciation