The therapist's notebook on strengths and solution-based therapies : homework, handouts, and activities

The Therapist's Notebook on Strengths and Solution-Based Therapies offers multiple pathways for those in helping relationships to employ strengths and solution-based (SSB) principles and practices as a vehicle for promoting positive change with individuals, couples, and families. The 100 exercises in this book are based on a series of core principles that are not only central to solution-based therapies; they have been demonstrated through research as essential to successful outcome. Readers will learn about processes and practices that are supported by research and are collaborative, competency-based, culturally sensitive, client-driven, outcome-informed, and change-oriented. The text is categorized into seven parts, each formatted similarly to ensure easy accessibility. Practitioners will find their therapy enhanced, with a greater ability to improve their clients' well-being, relationships, and social roles Content: Becoming strengths and solution-based : creating a context for change -- Getting focused : exploring strengths and solutions in information gathering -- Reconnection to self : experience, affect, and emotion -- Exploring new worlds of possibility : changing perspectives and perceptions -- Lives in motion : changing patterns of action and interaction -- Narratives of transformation : change, progress, transitions, and endings -- Creating a culture of care and respect : consultation, supervision, and development. This work offers multiple pathways for those in helping relationships to employ strengths and solution-based principles and practices as a vehicle for promoting positive change with individuals, couples and families. The 100 exercises in the book are based on core priciples which have been shown to result in positive outcomes __The Therapist's Notebook on Strengths and Solution-Based Therapies__