ABSTRACT
The Therapist's Notebook on Strengths and Solution-Based Therapies offers multiple pathways for those in helping relationships to employ strengths and solution-based (SSB) principles and practices as a vehicle for promoting positive change with individuals, couples, and families. The 100 exercises in this book are based on a series of core principles that are not only central to solution-based therapies; they have been demonstrated through research as essential to successful outcome. Readers will learn about processes and practices that are supported by research and are collaborative, competency-based, culturally sensitive, client-driven, outcome-informed, and change-oriented. The text is categorized into seven parts, each formatted similarly to ensure easy accessibility. Practitioners will find their therapy enhanced, with a greater ability to improve their clients' well-being, relationships, and social roles.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |38 pages
Becoming Strengths and Solution-Based Creating a Context for Change
chapter |2 pages
Creating New Meaning: All Our Actions Are Meaningful
chapter |2 pages
Taking the “ic” Out of the Person: Seeing the Core Within
chapter |3 pages
Composing Your Theoretical Worldview: What I Believe
chapter |2 pages
Me, Myself, and I: Understanding Personal Strengths
chapter |3 pages
The Key Is Collaboration: Working “With” Clients
chapter |4 pages
The Body Knows: The Influence of Words
chapter |3 pages
What Are Words For? Terminology as a Pathway of Connection
part |67 pages
Getting Focused: Exploring Strengths and Solutions in Information Gathering
chapter |2 pages
It Is Your Life: Creating Space for the Client's Story
chapter |2 pages
Hello, My Name Is: Meeting Yourself Again
chapter |3 pages
Stenographer: I Said What?
chapter |2 pages
What Is the Effect? Exploring the Influences of Problems
chapter |5 pages
G-O! Focusing on Goals and Outcomes
chapter |2 pages
Goals for Goal Setting: Charting a Clear Course
chapter |3 pages
Future Screening: Creating a Vision for the Future
chapter |4 pages
I Can See Clearly Now: Developing a Future Focus
chapter |4 pages
From Here to Where? Service Planning for Change
chapter |3 pages
In Many Ways: Mapping Paths of Change
chapter |5 pages
The Spokes of Life: Cultivating Resources
chapter |5 pages
What Tips the Scale? Weighing the Benefits of Change
chapter |2 pages
Embracing Your State: A Race With Yourself
chapter |2 pages
Matching Up: Creating a Fit Between Therapist and Client
chapter |2 pages
The Filing Cabinet: Categorizing My Favorite Methods
part |30 pages
Reconnection to Self
chapter |2 pages
Getting in Touch With Emotion: Hearing What Feelings Have to Say
chapter |2 pages
The Culture of Emotion: Aligning Emotion and Change
chapter |2 pages
Flipping the Switch: Tuning In To Self
chapter |2 pages
In a Moment's Notice: Internalizing the Experience of Now
chapter |2 pages
Body Over Mind: Settling Down Through Abilities
chapter |2 pages
Let It Be: Accepting What Is
chapter |3 pages
Let the Music Do the Talking: Sometimes Words Are Not Enough
chapter |3 pages
The Oasis of the Mind: The Return of Memories Past
part |46 pages
Exploring New Worlds of Possibility
chapter |4 pages
Life Pursuits and the Meaning of It All: Why Am I Here?
chapter |2 pages
The Inner Limits: Interviewing Self for Solutions
chapter |2 pages
What in the World? Noticing Between Session Change
chapter |4 pages
Pollyanna Grows Up: From Positives to Strengths
chapter |3 pages
The Art of the Frame: Using Reality-Defining Language
chapter |2 pages
Completing the Puzzle of Your Life: Putting the Pieces Together
chapter |2 pages
My Biography: In Your Own Words
chapter |3 pages
20,000 to 1: It Takes Only One
chapter |2 pages
Dear Diary: What Were My Strengths Today?
chapter |3 pages
Gratitudes: Appreciating Others
chapter |4 pages
Vantage Point: Multiple Angles, Multiple Solutions
chapter |3 pages
History Is Now: The Wisdom of Others
chapter |3 pages
Being the Author of Your Life: Say What You Need to Say
chapter |2 pages
More on Meeting Yourself Again: Living With Yourself
part |31 pages
Lives in Motion
chapter |3 pages
Getting Off the Hamster Wheel: Going Forward With Purpose
chapter |2 pages
Keeping the Momentum: Being Proactive and Enhancing Change
chapter |3 pages
You Don't Say: The “No-Talk” Client
chapter |2 pages
Changing It Up: Altering Problem Patterns
chapter |2 pages
From Mountains to Molehills: Taking Things One Step at a Time
chapter |2 pages
Replacing Street Behavior: Walking the Fine Line
chapter |2 pages
Taking Stock: Clients Increasing Their Control Over Their Lives
chapter |2 pages
Shuffling the Deck: Creating Cards to Create Change
part |36 pages
Narratives of Transformation
chapter |4 pages
Building Momentum: Extending Change Into the Future
chapter |2 pages
Developing Your Own Take-Home Message: Tell Me What You Think
chapter |2 pages
Filling the Void: It Can Be Better Than You Thought
chapter |2 pages
Creating Your Own GPS: A New Map for a New Day
chapter |2 pages
Building the Fire Inside: Sustaining Change in Your Life
chapter |2 pages
Giving Credit to Yourself: A New Look in the Mirror
chapter |2 pages
The Crossroads of Change: Maintaining New Patterns
chapter |4 pages
Sharing the Credit: Acknowledging the Contributions of Others
chapter |4 pages
Maintaining the Course: Negotiating Future Hurdles
chapter |2 pages
Spreading the News: Strengthening New Stories
part |31 pages
Creating a Culture of Care and Respect