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| Foreword | |
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| Preface: Stories of Hope and Healing | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: How to Use This Book | |
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| Foundations | |
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| What Works? Building on What We Know to Develop Practice Principles | |
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| Utilize What the Client Brings | |
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| Focus on Reasons for Living | |
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| Make Every Encounter Therapeutic | |
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| Contain Crisis | |
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| Help the Client Set Constructive Goals | |
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| Tap into Hope | |
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| Be Mindful | |
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| Watch Your Language! | |
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| Work with Systems | |
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| Collaborate with Clients | |
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| Collaborate with Colleagues | |
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| Evaluate Effectiveness | |
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| Do What You Can Do | |
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| Putting Principles into Practice: Asking Useful Questions | |
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| Beginnings | |
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| Balancing Acknowledgment and Possibility | |
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| Expanding Possibilities for Change | |
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| A Better Future: The Miracle Question ("You Ask Them What?") | |
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| Goals | |
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| "Making Numbers Talk" | |
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| Compliments | |
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| Messages: Therapist-to-Client Feedback | |
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| Safety Planning | |
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| Evaluations: Client-to-Therapist Feedback | |
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| Continuing: A Focus on Progress and Change | |
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| Termination | |
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| Putting It All Together: Thoughts on "Flow" | |
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| Examples of Possible Question Sequences | |
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| Conclusion: Voice of Experience | |
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| Applications | |
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| Three Conversations About Dying and Living | |
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| Talking with George | |
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| Talking with Laura | |
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| Talking with Marco | |
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| Solution-Focused Approaches to Crisis | |
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| Crisis Intervention at First Contact | |
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| Crisis Intervention in the Context of Ongoing Relationship | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Befriending the Black Dog: Solutions for Depression | |
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| Helpful Approaches | |
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| Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Chronic Attempts at Solution: Working with People Who Have Made Repeated Suicide Attempts | |
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| The Teacher | |
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| Respecting What Works I: Watching My Language | |
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| Respecting What Works II: Client Views and Resources | |
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| Respecting What Works III: Therapist Contributions | |
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| When Suicidal Crises Occur in the Course of Treatment | |
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| Notes on the R-Word | |
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| Notes on Dealing with Self-Mutilation | |
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| The Teacher Revisited | |
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| Even the Children: Preventing Suicide Among Young People | |
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| Helping Young Children with Suicidal Thoughts and Actions | |
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| Additional Safety Issues | |
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| Making our Methods Child-Friendly | |
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| Hope and Energy: Preventing Adolescent Suicide | |
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| Susan's Miracle | |
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| Working with "Angry Young Men" | |
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| When the Answer Is "I Don't Know" | |
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| Relationships and Relationship Questions | |
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| Teamwork with Natural Systems I: Collaborating with Clients' Parents and Peers | |
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| Parents Helping/Helping Parents | |
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| Friends | |
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| Other Approaches to Team-Building | |
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| Teamwork with Natural Systems II: Family and Couple Therapy | |
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| Suicide Prevention in Families | |
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| Suicide Prevention with Couples | |
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| Teamwork with Unnatural Systems: Collaborating with Our Colleagues | |
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| All My Relations | |
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| The Challenge of Collaboration | |
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| Meeting the Challenge | |
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| Borrowing a Framework | |
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| Applying the Framework: Questions and Examples | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Teamwork in Communities | |
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| Noticing Exceptions | |
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| Examples of Community Resource Utilization | |
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| Clients Constructing Community/Community Supporting Clients | |
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| Conclusion: Voices of Experience | |
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| Survivor Wisdom: News of a Difference | |
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| Challenges | |
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| The Helping Connection | |
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| "This Other Journey" | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Walking the Talk: The Hopeful Therapist | |
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| Hope-Friendly Practice? | |
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| Concrete Reminders | |
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| Conclusion: My Favorite Story | |
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| Conclusion: Take This Story | |
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| Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: The Basics | |
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| What It Is | |
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| How It Works | |
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| SFBT: Research Support | |
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| Notes on the Evidence Base: Toward Communities of Curiosity | |
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| The Specter of Evidence-Based Practice | |
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| Suicide Intervention Research: Challenges and Limitations | |
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| Research on Solution-Focused Brief Therapy: Challenges and Limitations | |
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| Model for a Collaborative, Practice-Friendly Evidence Base | |
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| An Exercise in Practicing My Preaching | |
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| A Therapist's Research Wish List | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Warning Signs of Imminent Danger for Suicide | |
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| Reflective Questions | |
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| Reflective Questions for Case Review | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |