Brief Counselling: Narratives and Solutions: Narratives and Solutions

ISBN-13: 9780333946473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 208 str.

Judith Milner

Opis

This book presents both solution focused and narrative approaches to brief counseling. Acknowledging the expertise of ordinary people in devising solutions to their problems, it reflects the current interest in very brief therapeutic work, which is driven partly by economic considerations and partly by its non-pathologizing ethos. Stressing the role of meaning-making, creativity, and imagination, the book provides a comprehensive account of its subject using extensive case examples to show how solution focused and narrative counseling can be applied across a variety of life's problems and client issues.

Spis treści

Solution Talk.- Practice Principles.- Practice Techniques.- The First Session.- Subsequent Sessions.- Thoughts on Personal Relationships.- School and Work.- Personal Safety and Wellbeing.- Happiness, Leisure and Recreation.- Conclusion.- Appendices.- Bibliography.- Index.

O autorze

JUDITH MILNER is a freelance counsellor and works mainly with adults who wish to change their violent behaviour and young people who have experienced violence. She also provides training in solution and narrative approaches to counselling for a wide variety of professionals.

PATRICK O'BYRNE is a freelance counsellor, supervisor and family mediator. He works as a mediator with the West Yorkshire Family Mediation service and was formerly a senior lecturer in the School of Human and Health Sciences at the University of Huddersfield.

Blurb

This innovative and highly practical text provides an introduction to solution and narrative approaches to brief counselling and demonstrates how they may successfully be combined to create solution talk with clients. Solution talk is a highly flexible and effective way of empowering people to use their own potential for positive change, for coping with what they cannot change, and for re-creating their lives and even their identities.

Judith Milner and Patrick O'Byrne compare and contrast solution talk with other more traditional or problem-oriented approaches to illustrate how a collaborative, co-constructive and empowering way of working may help clients to meet their goals quickly, painlessly and with long-lasting effects. They outline the philosophy, practice principles and specific techniques of solution talk and discuss what to do if no immediate progress is apparent. Through detailed case examples, they illustrate how the approach may be used in client work with a wide range of issues connected to family life, school and work, health, personal safety and leisure.

Brief Counselling: Narratives and Solutions will be an essential text for all trainees and practitioners in counselling, psychotherapy and other health-related professions interested in brief therapeutic approaches and working creatively with clients.