Women’s Perspectives on the Solution Focused Approach

International Applications and Interventions

Jacqui von Cziffra-Bergs, Anne-Marie Wulf, Jacqui von Cziffra-Bergs, Anne-Marie Wulf

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781032553481
• eBook ISBN: 9781040052525
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
• Index: Psychology

This book is a distinctive collection of narratives of female Solution Focused practitioners, from across six continents, sharing their unique ways of using the approach at personal, professional, and social levels.

Nineteen female practitioners from around the world share their practice and experience, and reflect on how their gender has influenced their work within different cultural, sociological, and socio-economic contexts. The editors introduce the concepts of a Solution Focused DNA and then encourage the contributors as well as the readers to answer questions such as: What are the common characteristics that are a part of your Solution Focused DNA? Which of them are related to gender, which of them to the Solution Focused Approach, and which of them to your sociocultural context? Contributors also provide insights on how they work from the Solution Focused approach integrating their own creative styles using embodiment and dance, animal assisted therapy, and humour. The chapters in this book explore a wide variety of themes and contexts, including shelters, trauma, the LGBTQ community, prisons, schools, refugee camps, veterans, the medical field, research, children, and more.

This book will inspire practitioners regardless of gender to reflect on their own practice and to use and apply the Solution Focused Approach in innovative and creative ways.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Foreword by Eve Lipchik
• Foreword by Yvonne Dolan
• Foreword by Jane Lethem
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Our Solution Focused DNA: How the being, the doing, and the context influence our implementation and application
• Chapter 2 Addressing trauma through Solution Focused Brief Therapy in Chile: Two female voices from the South
• Chapter 3 In the space between governance and politics: A Solution Focused approach to rethink and operate democratically on public policy
• Chapter 4 The gift of representation: Solution Focused Brief Therapy as a safe haven for the LGBTQ community
• Chapter 5 Finding my own voice
• Chapter 6 Solution Focused Single Session Therapy : Small conversations for big social change
• Chapter 7 A way to unlock potential and strengthen cooperation: A Solution Focused perspective in a school context in Germany
• Chapter 8 Keep it simple: A few words about Solution Focused therapy
• Chapter 9 It’s a kind of magic : Solution Focused practice with children and families
• Chapter 10 Finding hope: Solution Focused work with traumatised and underprivileged clients
• Chapter 11 Solution Focused embodiment practice for empowerment
• Chapter 12 Everyone can benefit from Solution Focused ideas: Kids’ Skills training in China
• Chapter 13 Solution Focused supervision from the perspective of gender and culture
• Chapter 14 Disruptive thinking: Adventures in Australian veteran support
• Chapter 15 Infusing Solution Focused thinking within the New Zealand Police
• Chapter 16 Breaking bars and building dreams: A female psychologist’s perspectives on working in a male prison
• Chapter 17 Empowering women survivors of violence at domestic violence shelters using an SFBT lens : Experiences of a Muslim woman practitioner
• Chapter 18 Our Solution Focused revolution: Co-constructing our collective ideas
• List of contributors
• Index