ABSTRACT
This chapter describes some possible ways to handle clients’ declared interest in the causes and explanations of their problems. Case examples demonstrate both the origin of these tools, as well as their content. Designed to provoke Solution Focused therapists’ current way of thinking about causal assumptions, it is open and inviting to new suggestions in this direction. Keeping in mind that explanations have little or nothing to do with solutions, readers are encouraged to follow their clients’ unique ways of arriving at solutions, quite often demanding a simple and useful explanation as a step towards discussing their hopes, wishes and goals.
