ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the activities that take place in the observation room during ecosystemic brief interviews. It deals with the ways in which team members orient to and participate in ongoing interviews. The chapter considers the four major ecosystemic brief team activities: constructing problems, assessing interviews and clients' perspectives, proposing intervention strategies, and assessing the progress of ongoing cases. It considers a more general issue involving the vocabularies of solutions and cases used by team members and therapists in orienting to clients' problems and how they might be solved. Much of ecosystemic brief therapy team members' work involves categorizing clients' social systems, perspectives, and troubles. Ecosystemic brief therapy team members express an interest in constructing problems from the outset of interviews. Ecosystemic team members' problem constructions and assessments of clients' perspectives, social systems, and intervention proposals are interrelated.
