When we get in a problem situation, we often keep making the same mistake over and over again. Sometimes, the problem itself is repeating a remedy that never works. It's a broken record or a hamster running in a wheel that keeps going around and around and gets nowhere. This book is about ways to change the game, to get on track and unstuck. William Glasser, Phoebe Prosky, David Baum, Joan Barth, Michael Hoyt, airline pilot Doug Doherty and about thirty others share their lives and experiences in "Making the Impossible Difficult: Tools for Getting Unstuck," The editors and writers invite you...

Inside 101 More Interventions in Family Therapy, you'll discover many revolutionary and flexible strategies for family counseling intervention that you can tailor, amend, and apply in your own practice. Designed to appeal to professionals of beginning, intermediate, or advanced level status, 101 More Interventions in Family Therapy caters to an even broader range of ethnic, racial, gender, and class contexts than did its well-received predecessor, 101 Interventions in Family Therapy. You'll also find that this volume encompasses a wider variety of family therapy orientations, including...

In 53 accounts, therapists of diverse credentials, schools, and countries disclose experiential lessons centered on listening to clients more than theories gleaned in the areas of: therapy with families, couples, and children; difficult cases; therapy with medical issues, death, and dying; collaboration with clients; developing the self of the ther

You often see books on theoretical approaches and new interventions in therapy, but you rarely, if ever, find a book where therapists discuss their personal reactions to and views of the therapy they offer. In this amazing volume, Tales from Family Therapy: Life-Changing Clinical Experiences, psychologists, psychotherapists, and marriage and family counselors come together to share their unique experiences in therapy sessions and how they ve learned that often the clients know more than they do As you will see, and as these therapists reveal, sometimes all the top-notch and most innovative...

A collection of favorite tried and true interventions, 101 More Interventions in Family Therapy includes interventions that apply to a wide variety of situations and clientele--individuals, couples, and families. Similar to the first book, 101 Interventions in Family Therapy, interventions related to family configurations, treatment settings, and problem areas, as well as those for specific situations, are explored. In addition, this new volume features interventions from a wide variety of family therapy orientations, including strategic, behavioral, family of origin, and solution focused;...

An invaluable guide to the history, descriptions of practice strategies, and applications of SFBT

The Handbook of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy is a unique, comprehensive guide that assists clinicians, regardless of experience level, in learning and applying the concepts of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) to particular situations with clients. Noted experts discuss the therapy practices and various uses for the approach in detail, which focuses on encouraging clients to look at exceptions, times when the problem could have occurred and did not, and goals and future...

This handbook is a comprehensive guide for the application of solution-focused brief therapy with clients. Noted experts explain in detail the therapy practices and various uses for the approach.

The one-of-a-kind book that provides training exercises illustrating solution-focused brief therapy

As we recognize our own problem behavior in our lives, most of us struggle for ways to change it. Solution-focused brief therapy is the highly effective practice that works by changing concentration from 'problem' behavior to 'solution' behavior in just a few sessions. Education and Training in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy presents articles, essays, and a multitude of exercises that explain this unique type of therapy with an eye toward helping readers to use the ideas for use in...

Here is an exciting collection of favorite and successful family therapy interventions from therapists which inspire more creative therapy methods in your own practice. 101 Interventions in Family Therapy features contributions by a diverse group of well-known leaders in the field, "therapists on the street," and faculty of family therapy training programs. Each clinician presents a creative and useful intervention beginning with a complete description of the method, followed by the specific indications and contraindications for its application, and concludes with a particular case...

Here is an exciting collection of favorite and successful family therapy interventions from therapists which inspire more creative therapy methods in your own practice. 101 Interventions in Family Therapy features contributions by a diverse group of well-known leaders in the field, "therapists on the street," and faculty of family therapy training programs. Each clinician presents a creative and useful intervention beginning with a complete description of the method, followed by the specific indications and contraindications for its application, and concludes with a particular case...