Learning Solution-Focused Therapy: An Illustrated Guide
There has been incredible growth in the practice of Solution-Focused Therapy in North America and around the world in the past few years. It seems that most of the clinical disciplines have recently discovered this evidence-based approach, with its emphasis on strengths, resiliencies, positive attribution, and its paradigm-shifting focus on solutions rather than problems. While written primarily for physicians, Anne Lutz marvelous Learning Solution-Focused Therapy: An Illustrated Guide is, in my opinion, the best all-around manual on how to do Solution-Focused Therapy. It is filled with specific procedures and techniques, followed by outstanding clinical examples, and include wonderfully clear video illustrations, all of which make this not only one of the most practical Solution-Focused books, but perhaps one of the most practical psychotherapy books currently available. --Terry S. Trepper, Ph.D., Editor, Journal of Family Psychotherapy, Professor of Psychology, Purdue University CalumetDr. Lutz challenges physicians and clinicians to move past our training in chief complaints and problem lists to a new paradigm focusing on strengths and solutions. This is not a naïve way of sugarcoating serious issues, but a liberating way of making an alliance with patients, forging a collaborative path forward and improving health. Her clinical examples and step by step guidance will help all practitioners to utilize this approach in almost any clinical situation. The process of focusing on positive differences in even the worst of times allows for the individual and family to see that the seeds for change already exist and can be magnified and nurtured. --Marie Hobart, M.D., Chief Medical Officer, Community Healthlink; Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Med School