Children naturally focus on solutions and not problems, think about the future and not the past, and understand the effects of miracles. This book provides psychotherapists with a guide to therapy that fits in with children's and adolescent's natural way of being.

Autorentext

Insoo Kim Berg, MSW, codeveloped Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and is Director of the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her most recent books are Children's Solution Work (with Therese Steiner) and Interviewing for Solutions (with Peter de Jonge).

Klappentext

Focusing on solutions and not problems, thinking about the future and not the past, and understanding the effects of miracles-children do these things naturally. Here, leaders in the solution-focused approach to therapy provide clinicians with a guide to a kind of therapy that fits with children's natural way of being.

Zusammenfassung
How to use solution-focused therapy with children and adolescents.

Inhalt

What is Solution-Focused Brief Therapy; Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and Children - A Natural Fit; It's a Matter of Technique; Assessing Your Clients, Agreeing on Goals; Let's Get To It!; Communicating with Children on Their Own Terms; Treating Children with Uncommon Needs; Making a Difference with Teenagers; Looking from the Therapist's Chair.