Handbook of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Clinical Applications (The Haworth Handbook Series in Psychotherapy)


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An invaluable guide to the history, descriptions of practice strategies, and applications of SFBT! </br></br>The Handbook of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy is a unique, comprehensive guide that assists clinicians, regardless of experience level, in learning and applying the concepts of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) to particular situations with clients. Noted experts discuss the therapy practices and various uses for the approach in detail, which focuses on encouraging clients to look at exceptions, times when the problem could have occurred and did not, and goals and future possibilities. A history of the practice model and its interventions is discussed, along with limitations, descriptions of practice strategies, applications to specific client populations, and clinical problems and concerns. This useful resource also includes an illustrative case study that uses the SFBT model. </br></br>The Handbook of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy first lays a foundation of knowledge, providing chapters on the crucial assumptions and practices, history, and epistemology behind the approach. Further chapters use that basis to explain the application of the approach with several clinical issues and various populations, including couples, depression, domestic violence, schools, children, pastoral work, therapist burnout, and a few “outside therapy room �� applications. Other chapters focus on the important issues in therapist training and supervision. Extensive references are provided at the end of each chapter.Handbook of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Clinical Applications (The Haworth Handbook Series in Psychotherapy) Review
This handbook of more than 400 pages contains contributions from established experts. The book opens with a Foundations section which introduces readers to the solution-focused approach. Assumptions, history and epistemology are described in this section. Section two describes Applications like couples therapy, depression, domestic violence offenders and applications in school settings. The rest of the book describes solution-focused training (section three) and some concluding chapters (section four). I think this book is a valuable contribution to the literature on the solution-focused approach because it describes the state of the art. It is not only interesting to people who are new to the field but also to experienced 'solutionists'. This book is -of course- aimed at an audience of therapists and not primarily intended for solution-focused practioners who apply it in a business context, like myself. But if you really want to know everything about SF, you can't miss this book, no matter in what context you use the approach. I especially liked chapters by Yvonne Dolan (tribute to Insoo Kim Berg), by Frank Thomas (about limitations and misuses) and most of all by Brian Cade (about the history of the solution-focused approach). This book shows how much alive the solution-focused approach still is.Most of the consumer Reviews tell that the "Handbook of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Clinical Applications (The Haworth Handbook Series in Psychotherapy)" are high quality item. You can read each testimony from consumers to find out cons and pros from Handbook of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Clinical Applications (The Haworth Handbook Series in Psychotherapy) ...

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