More Than Miracles (Routledge Mental Health Classic Editions)

Written by pioneering experts in the field, More Than Miracles remains the authoritative text on solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT). The final work of the world-renowned family therapists and original developers of SFBT, the late Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg, this comprehensive resource informs practitioners and students in how to apply this practical, internationally acclaimed approach. 
With a new preface, this classic edition outlines the latest developments in the fields of family therapy, brief therapy, and psychotherapy training and practice. A succinct overview orients the reader to the current landscape of SFBT and provides three real-life case transcripts that illustrate the practical applications of SFBT techniques. The seminar format of the text allows readers to: 
sit in on surprising psychotherapy sessions 
eavesdrop on the authors’ commentary about the sessions 
gain a comprehensive overview on the current state of SFBT 
review and understand the major tenets of SFBT 
learn specific interventions, including the miracle question and the reasons for asking it 
understand treatment applicability 
read actual session transcripts 
understand the "miracle scale" 
get insight into the unique relationship between Wittgenstein’s philosophy and SFBT 
better understand SFBT and emotions 
examine misconceptions about SFBT 
and more\nSuitable for both advanced practitioners and ambitious beginners, this book is the ideal resource for anyone seeking an in-depth understanding of the SFBT approach, the concepts that inform it, and the specific techniques that characterize its implementation.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Berg, Insoo Kim

De Shazer, Steve

Dolan, Yvonne

Korman, Harry

Trepper, Terry

McCollum, Eric

Mental Health

Routledge

"Written by pioneering experts in the field, More Than Miracles remains the authoritative text on Solution-focused Brief Therapy (SFBT). Suitable for both advanced practitioners and ambitious beginners, this book is the ideal resource for anyone seeking an in-depth understanding of the SFBT approach, the concepts that inform it, and the specific techniques that characterize its implementation"--

Examines the differences between brief, solution-focused therapy and other forms of therapy

Putting Difference to Work

Psychology & Counseling

W.W.Norton&Company

This book describes a general view of solutions and how they work and of related specific procedures that have been developed during 15 years of doing and studying brief therapy.
"Join de Shazer behind the on-way mirror for a fascinating journey into the land of brief therapy, where the emphasis is not on how problems arise, but on how to solve them. His case examples read like well-written detective novels, and his concept of 'skeleton key' interventions is both provocative and promising. This is a book that is firmly grounded in the tradition of Milton Erickson, but that extends Erickson's work into new areas. Highly recommended." ―Bill O'Hanlon, Editor, Milton H.Erickson Foundation Newsletter
"De Shazer's work is testimony to simplicity and parsimony in the therapeutic art of addressing the complex. The author's sense of delight, curiosity, and utter respect for the human condition and people's capacity for creative problem-solving resound in rich case examples, therapist repertoire, and team cooperation. This book presents a teachable model whose outer edges remain open, flexible, and inviting." ―Evan Imber Coppersmith, Ph.D., University of Calgary
"De Shazer offers, among other things, an expansion of our horizons by an emphasis on solutions as counterweight to previous emphasis on the origins or the nature of problems, an expansion of one's vision of 'cooperation' in therapy as contrasted to 'resistance,' including ideas about how to work with those vague clients who are otherwise the bane of strategic therapists, and some seminal thoughts on 'formula' interventions. These last, together with the recent work of Mara Selvini Palazzoli, may well mark an important new step." ―John H. Weakland, Ch.E., Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto

Keys to Solution in Brief Therapy

How do solutions develop? This question leads de Shazer to a provocative discussion of all the solution-related things that client and therapist do during a session, which ultimately point to a task that says, "Now that you know what works, do more of it."
Once therapist and client are focused on investigating solutions rather than problems, therapy inevitably becomes brief―sometimes only on session.
Engaging cases, often with surprising twists, illustrate this practice-based theory of brief therapy with a wide range of complaints. Some of these, such as drug addiction or severe marital record, previously have been thought to be too "difficult" for brief therapy. however, as de Shazer shoes time and again, once therapist and client together discover "what works," obstacles in the pathway to solutions disappear.
An innovation is de Shazer's computer analysis of therapy sessions, which provides a map for analyzing situations and finding solutions. Pieces of the computer program are highlighted with individual cases, enabling the reader to move easily from the map to the territory and back again.
Both theoretically stimulating and clinically sound, de Shazer's investigations turns up clues with the potential to revolutionize the way psychotherapy is thought about and practiced.

Clues: Investigating Solutions in Brief Therapy

De Shazer places his brief therapy work and that of his colleagues at the Brief Family Therapy Center (Milwaukee) within an overall philosophical position, based on Wittgenstein, Derrida, and others, that situates the solution-oriented model within the developing purview of post-structuralist thought. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

More Than Miracles: The State of the Art of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (Routledge Mental Health Classic Editions)

The latest developments in this groundbreaking therapy approach! More Than Miracles: The State of the Art of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy is a ground breaking, intellectually provocative book, revealing new advances in the widely used, evidence based Solution-focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) approach. The final work of world renowned family therapists and original developers of SFBT, the late Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg (who passed away shortly before the book’s release) this definitive resource provides the most up-to-date information available on this eminently practical, internationally acclaimed approach. New revelations about the impact of language in therapeutic change are presented precisely and clearly, illustrated with real life case examples that give readers a hands-on view of the newest technical refinements in the SF approach. Challenging questions about the applications of SFBT to complex problems in difficult settings are given thoughtful, detailed answers. The book’s unique design allows the reader to listen in on the lively discussions that took place as the authors watched therapy sessions. The solution-focused brief therapy approach is based upon researchers observing thousands of hours of psychotherapy sessions and studying which questions and responses were most effective in helping people develop solutions to their problems. More Than Miracles: The State of the Art of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy is the most up-to-date, comprehensive review of this approach. This book discusses the latest developments in the fields of family therapy, brief therapy, and psychotherapy training and practice. A succinct overview orients the reader to the current state of SFBT, and provides three real life case transcripts that vividly illustrate the practical applications of SFBT techniques. The seminar format of More Than Miracles: The State of the Art of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy allows readers to: 
<ul>
<li> sit in on surprising psychotherapy sessions </li>
<li> eavesdrop on the authors’ commentary about the sessions </li>
<li> get a comprehensive overview on the current state of SFBT </li>
<li> review and understand the major tenets of SFBT </li>
<li> learn specific interventions, including the miracle question and the reasons for asking it </li>
<li> understand treatment applicability </li>
<li> read actual session transcripts </li>
<li> understand the miracle scale </li>
<li> get insight into the unique relationship between Wittgenstein’s philosophy and SFBT </li>
<li> better understand SFBT and emotions </li>
<li> examine misconceptions about SFBT </li>
<li> and more 
</li>
</ul> More Than Miracles: The State of the Art of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy is illuminating reading for psychotherapists, counselors, human services personnel, health care workers, and teachers.

A collection of Indirect Approaches in Therapy.

Indirect Approaches in Therapy (Family Therapy Collections, 19)

Business & Money

ASPEN PUB.

First published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Patterns of Brief Family Therapy: An Ecosystemic Approach

The Guilford Press

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More Than Miracles (Routledge Mental Health Classic Editions)

More Than Miracles (Routledge Mental Health Classic Editions)

Putting Difference to Work

Keys to Solution in Brief Therapy

Clues: Investigating Solutions in Brief Therapy

Putting Difference to Work

More Than Miracles: The State of the Art of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (Routledge Mental Health Classic Editions)

More Than Miracles: The State of the Art of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (Routledge Mental Health Classic Editions)

Indirect Approaches in Therapy (Family Therapy Collections, 19)

Patterns of Brief Family Therapy: An Ecosystemic Approach