Theory of Solution-Focused Practice

Version 2020

Peter Sundman, Matthias Schwab, Ferdinand Wolf, John Wheeler, Marie-Christine Cabie, Svea van der Hoorn, Rytis Pakrosnis, Kirsten Dierolf, Michael Hjerth

• Publisher: Books on Demand
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9783751976749
• eBook ISBN: 9783752614947
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: History & Theory in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

This book is the result of a collaboration between a number of authors working as a European Brief Therapy Association (EBTA) task-group. This is the 2020 state of the art version of understanding and learning Solution-Focused Practice.It is applicable to various fields of practice, such as therapy, coaching, supervision, social change, educational work, leadership, and other contexts where a detailed understanding of how to manage and promote change in social systems and communities is intended.The book presents a coherent theory of solution-focused practice for those who want to understand the rationale, together with a comprehensive description of solution-focused practice that can be used in daily practice or training and for developmental purposes.Theory here is defined as a process theory describing how the solution-focused practice is done, together with explanations of how and why the change process is initiated.This book is also a statement of what solution-focused practice is and what are the sound reasons to use it.

Table of contents

• Acknowledgements
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• I. Practice: Being in context
• II. Explanation: Why be solution-focused?
• III. Description: What makes practice solution-focused?
• IV. Conclusion
• References
• Reflective reviews
• Authors
• Reviewers
• Copyright