ABSTRACT
One of the features of the Solution Focused approach is its capacity for building cooperation and engagement with statutory, or reluctant, clients. Clearly it cannot be the case that every adolescent referred to a professional is necessarily ‘reluctant’. However, many young people will not have referred themselves and their attendance may well have been required by an adult, who may be concerned about many of the life choices that the young person has made or is making, concern that may be experienced by the adolescent as criticism. This chapter explores some of the pathways that the Solution Focused approach opens for practitioners towards cooperation, engagement and partnership.
