Solution-building in couples therapy / Elliott Connie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Connie, Elliott.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Couples therapy.

Marital psychotherapy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (136 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""Elliott Connie has written a remarkable book. Read it and you will be taken on a journey. If you are new to the world of solution focused brief therapy, beware! This book could capture your heart As Elliott says from the very beginning, solution focused brief therapy is simple, so simple it is really hard to learn. And from this book, if you set out to do so, you could teach yourself how to become a competent solution focused brief therapist. It is all here, laid out clearly, packed with examples from the real world of therapy, repeated and repeated like onion skins, each repetition releasin

Contents:

Cover Page; Solution Building in Couples Therapy; Contents; Foreword by Chris Iveson; Foreword by Linda Metcalf; Acknowledgments; Introduction; An Overview of Solution-Focused Therapy; Solution-Focused Tenets; If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It; If It Works, Do More of It; If It's Not Working, Do Something Different; Small Steps Can Lead to Big Changes; Solution Is Not Necessarily Directly Related to the Problem; The Language of Solution Development Is Different From the Language of Problem Description; Solution Building With Couples; First Principles; Every Couple Comes From a Successful Past

Connect With the Couple, Not Just the Individuals Within the CoupleDirect Each Question to Both Members of the Couple; The Beauty Is in the Details So Focus on Them; Carefully Choose What Parts of the Couple's Story to Be Curious About; Co-Construction Requires Using the Couple's Language; How SFT is Different?; It Is So Simple, It Is Almost Complicated; Solution Building Is Based on Turn-Taking; Every Couple Is Motivated by Something; Summary; Step 1: Establishing a Destination; An Effective Best Hope Must . . .; Look Toward the Future; Assume the Couple Wants to Be Together

Leave the Past in the PastEstablish a Contract; The Therapist's Task in Establishing Best Hopes; Lost in London: A Personal Story; One Chance to Help: A Case Example; Summary; Step 2: Connecting With the Couple; The Therapist's Task in Developing a Connection; Past Successes; Systemic Resources; Descriptions of the Relationship Before or Without the Problem; What the Client Really Wants; John and Stacy; Summary; Step 3: Honeymoon Talk: Reviewing a Couple's Successful Past; The Therapist's Tasks in Exploring the Successful Past; How Did You Meet?; Taking Credit for Success; Say it Out Loud

The Solution-Focused ClosetBack from the Brink; Finding Exceptions; Summary; Step 4: The Preferred Future: Envisioning the Best Tomorrow; It's Simple; The Therapist's Task in Determining the Preferred Future; A Well-Developed Preferred Future . . .; . . . Must Be About the Future; . . . Must Be Mathematically Positive; . . . Must Be Concrete and Observable; . . . Must Require Effort; . . . Must Be Created Equally by Both Partners; Details! You Can't Have Too Many; Rachel and Ray; The "I Don't Know" Couple; Summary; Step 5: Scaling Toward the Preferred Future; The Components of a Scale

A Word About TenA Word About Zero; Where the Couple Is Today; Where They Would Like to Be; Scaling Examples; Using Scales to Build Homework Tasks; Using Scales to Identify a Couple's Strengths; Using Scales to Identify Exceptions; Summary; Step 6: Wrapping Up: Taking a Break, Providing Feedback, and Making Suggestions; The Break; Giving Feedback; Making Suggestions; Summary; Follow-Up Sessions: What to Do After the First Meeting; Follow-Up Step 1: Identify Signs of Progress; Follow-Up Step 2: Amplifying the Signs of Progress; Follow-Up Step 3: Where are You on the Scale Now?

What If Things Have Not Gotten Better?

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8261-0960-8

OCLC:

812536764