ABSTRACT
Without mentioning it by name, previous chapters have touched upon the idea of utilization (Berg and Miller, 1992; Duncan, Hubble, and Miller, 1997; O'Hanlon and Beadle, 1997; O'Hanlon and Weiner-Davis, 1989; Selekman, 1997). Utilization involves use of each individual client's unique set of resources and ideas, and being flexible enough to connect in a different way with each client. The idea is to take full advantage of clients' strengths, their innate capacity to grow, and helpful events in clients' lives outside therapy, as well as things most counselors would consider "negatives." This is closely related to the ideas of accommodating the client (Duncan, Hubble, and Miller, 1997) and transferring competence (O'Hanlon and Beadle, 1997) from one area of the client's life to another.
