Doing What Works in Brief Therapy: A Strategic Solution Focused Approach (Paperback, 2)

Introduction: Origins, Additional Perspectives, and the Model
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, Suggestion
You Can Take it With You: "What Do You Want to Remember?"
Therapist Decisions: Clarifying, Amplifying or Interrupting
Coping with Difficult Situations
Brief Therapy: Problems and Solutions in Managed Care
Medication and the Model
Problems and Solutions with Couples
"Doing What Works" Group Therapy
Doing What Works and Changing What Doesn't As a Transtheoretical Perspective; Case Examples and Excerpts from Single-Session, Brief, and Intermittent Therapy