Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Why Change an Entire Agency’s Focus to Solution-Focused Therapy?
• What to Expect from This Book
• Chapter 1. The Solution-Focused Basics
• Solution-Focused Therapy Basics
• The Miracle Question
• Exception Questions
• A Brief History of Scaling
• Scaling Questions
• Difference Questions
• Relationship Questions
• Compliments As Interventions
• The Rewards of Becoming Solution Focused
• Summary
• Chapter 2. Individual Session Road Map
• Chips on Their Shoulders
• Individual Session Map
• Summary
• Chapter 3. Solution-Focused Groups
• The Effects of Clients’ Past Problem-Oriented Group Experiences
• Group Session Map
• The Importance of Cotherapy in Groups
• Summary
• Chapter 4. Many Miracles: Adaptations and Applications of the Miracle Question
• Beware of the Perils of Problem Solving
• Principles Behind the Miracle Question
• Applying the Miracle Question Elements
• Summary
• Chapter 5. Sustaining the Miracle
• Changing the Focus
• Emergency Roadside Repair Kit
• Relapse Prevention with Reluctant Clients
• When to Use the Emergency Roadside Repair Kit
• Summary
• Chapter 6. This Is Stupid, I Don’t Need This, and I Don’t Want to Be Here: Working with Adolescents
• The Paradoxical Population
• Challenging Our Old Assumptions About Adolescents
• Limit Setting and the Solution-Focused Approach
• Relational Questions with Adolescents
• Relational Questions As a Way to Work with Families
• Scaling and Therapeutic Analogies to Kindle Hope
• Working with Younger Children
• Summary
• Chapter 7. The Art of Speaking French: Interagency Diplomacy
• Working with Other Professionals
• Solution-Focused Case Management
• Identifying Evidence of a Client’s Potential for Success
• Solution-Focused Treatment Plans
• Termination
• How Client Charts Can be Helpful to Solution-Focused Therapists
• Viewing Governing Agencies As Clients
• Summary
• Chapter 8. Solution-Focused Supervision: Leading from One Step Behind
• Why Do Solution-Focused Supervision?
• Adapting Solution-Focused Skills to a Supervisory Context
• The Practical Structure of Solution-Focused Supervision
• Principles for Initiating Solution-Focused Supervision in an Established Agency
• Getting Staff to Stay
• Summary
• Chapter 9. Maintaining the Team’s Miracle: Observations from Our Solution-Focused Team
• The Impact of Our Supervision
• Team Norms
• Maintaining the Team Miracle
• Summary
• Chapter 10. Case Examples of Clients Who Changed Their Lives and Our Way of Working
• A Case of Quiet Rebellion
• Jim
• Tracy
• Julie
• Connie
• Kerry
• Elaine
• Summary
• Epilogue: The Parable of the Nomads
• Appendix. Reflections from Our Solution-Focused Treatment Team
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

About the Author

Teri Pichot, Yvonne M Dolan