The Therapist's Notebook for Families : Solution-Oriented Exercises for Working With Parents, Children, and Adolescents (Paperback, 2 ed)

Introduction I. The Family as a Resource 1. The Therapist’s Notebook: Preparing for Working with Families 2. The Pyramid: Identifying Levels of Need 3. Reputation Matters: Examining the Culture of Therapy 4. Collaboration Keys: Strengthening the Alliance 5. Preferences: Eliciting Clients’ Ideas about Therapy 6. Who Are You? Qualities Within 7. Recollections: Finding What We Do Well 8. Factors: Influences on Problems and Solutions 9. Taking Stock: Creating a Family Inventory of Resources 10. More Than: Challenging Unhelpful Influences 11. More Like Whom? Speculating About My Parents 12. Significant: People Who Know or Have Known Me 13. Inside Job: Exploring Family Solutions 14. Inherited or Learned or Both?II. Getting Clear on Change 15. Cycling Through 16. The Language of Possibility 17. Invitations to Accountability: Separating Feeling and Doing 18. Translations: Using Action-Talk 19. Solution-Talk 20. Determining Goals: What Needs to Change? 21. Indications: Identifying Goal-Related Improvement 22. The Crystal Ball 23. The Time Machine 24. Movement: Signs of Progress 25. Scaling: Taking the Temperature of Change 26. Exploring Theories of Change III. Changing Views and Perspectives 27. Future-Talk: Acknowledgement and a Vision for the Future 28. Reviving The Soul: Spiritual Energy and Resources 29. Did You See That? Acknowledging Efforts 30. Family Views: Appreciating Different Perspectives 31. Teach Your Children 32. Request for Change 33. Catch ‘Em Doing Well 34. Seize the Moments: Identifying the Exceptions 35. Gaining the Upper Hand: Searching for Counterevidence 36. How Does That Help You? Reevaluating Viewpoints 37. What Would Einstein Say? Considering Alternative Views 38. The World as a Consultant: Learning from Experienced Others 39. Scene It: Movies as Life 40. Separating From Problems 41. The Big Picture 42. What’s My Mission? Finding a Meaning 43. Before Tomorrow: Finding a Vision for the FutureIV. Changing Actions and Interactions 44. Our Lives as Patterns 45. Exception-Seeking: Changing Patters 46. Stay With It: Going Along with the Pattern 47. Try-Outs: Exploring the Benefits of Turning Patterns On and Off 48. Do Something Different: Experimenting with Pattern Interruptions 49. United We Stand: Creating Caregiving Agreement 50. Who’s Doing What? Sharing Household Responsibilities 51. Script It Out 52. Trouble with the Curve: Doing the Unexpected 53. Here, There, Not Everywhere: Change Some Aspect of Context 54. Something Different, Something New, Something Unpredictable 55. Remember When: Utilizing Past Solutions and Successes 56. Nothing’s Forever, It Just Seems That Way: Problem Wind-Downs and Endings 57. What Difference a Day Makes: Charting SolutionsV. Keeping the Ball Rolling 58. Three Forward, Two Back 59. Putting the Brakes On: Keeping Things from Getting Worse 60. What Worked? Evaluating and Employing Successes 61. Parent Preparation, Parent Prevention 62. Traditions: Consistency, Continuity, and Connection 63. The Real World: Keeping an Eye on Between Session 64. Where’s the Evidence? Identifying the Facts of Change 65. Bring it to Light: Identify and Amplify Change 66. It Really is You! 67. Are We There Yet? Evaluating the Significance of Change 68. Self-Examination: Making the Most of Differences 69. The Scrapbook of Life 70. Certifiable 71. Pursuing the Future 72. Simply Said: The Gift of Gratitude