Handbook of solution-focused brief therapy; clinical applications

SciTech Book News, March, 2008

Handbook of solution-focused brief therapy; clinical applications.

Ed. by Thorana S. Nelson and Frank N. Thomas.

Haworth Pr.

2007

429 pages

$79.95

Hardcover

Haworth handbook series in psychotherapy

RC489

Twenty-one international academics, practitioners, consultants, and trainers contribute 17 chapters to a text for clinicians on various common and not-so-common uses of the Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) approach. Following opening chapters providing background to the assumptions and practices, history, and epistemology behind the approach, subsequent chapters discuss its application for a variety of clinical issues and populations, including couples, depression, domestic violence offenders, public school settings, children and young people, faith-based communities, therapist burnout, and use of SFBT outside the therapy room working with child protection services and with traumatized or tortured refugees. Also included is discussion of training and supervising SFBT and an illustrative case study using SFBT.

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