Solution-Focused Therapy by Bill O'Connell
`The book gives a clearly written overview of the components and competent practice of SFT, illustrated with well-chosen examples of session dialogues. It will prove a useful introduction [and] for those of us who already use an SFT approach, it provides, in addition, a context for this model within the brief therapy and social constructionist traditions... This book is the most readable and well-argued introduction to SFT that I have yet seen' - Counselling at Work
`This is an easy-to-read and informative book emphasizing respect for, and the autonomy of, the client' - Counselling and Psychotherapy, The Journal of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
This eminently practical book clearly identifies and explains the main skills needed to practise solution-focused brief therapy and shows how to integrate these new skills successfully into existing practice.
Solution-focused therapy is a well-structured and demonstrably effective approach. It is increasingly popular with counsellors under continuing pressures to provide therapy that is time-limited and cost-effective. Using carefully chosen case studies and examples to illustrate the techniques involved, Bill O'Connell here draws together theory, skills and practice in one volume.