ABSTRACT
Solution-focused (SF) psychotherapy started during the 1980s and has at its core a future-focused agenda. It relies very much on the notion that people know most about their own lives and can be trusted to make change. Unlike other approaches, it attempts to disrupt client’s typical thinking by employing tactics of curiosity, collaboration and confidence. This chapter explores how the nature of SF practice helps them envisage, engage and subsequently enact with theirs. SF practice is now an established approach to working with children and young people in many health, social care and educational settings. Helping young people transform scales, exceptions and miracles into new behaviours requires not only pacing by a patient collaborator, a grasp of confidence, empathetic of what motivates but also, some type of putting theory into action. Resilience is dynamic and requires proof.
