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| Preface | |
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| The Model and Its Origins | |
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| Additional Perspectives | |
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| The Model | |
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| Brief Strategic Therapy: The Mri Approach | |
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| Solution Focused Therapy: The BFTC Approach | |
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| Combining Models | |
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| The Strategic Solution Focused Model | |
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| Summary of Chapter 1 | |
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| Clarifying the Problem: What's the Trouble? | |
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| Prioritizing Problems | |
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| "Who, What, When, and Where?" | |
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| In What Way Is This a Problem? | |
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| To Whom Is This a Problem? | |
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| Why Now? | |
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| Translating Vague Constructs to Clear Complaints | |
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| When the Problem Is the Past | |
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| A Different Problem Every Time | |
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| Problem Clarification as Intervention | |
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| Celeste: "My Mother Was Very Sick Mentally" | |
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| How Is Therapy Supposed to Help? The Worst and Best Messages | |
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| Summary of Chapter 2 | |
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| Amplifying the Solution: Variations on the Miracle Question | |
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| The Miracle Question | |
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| David: "I Wouldn't Hate Going to Work" | |
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| Identifying and Amplifying Exceptions | |
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| Scaling Questions | |
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| Variations on the Miracle Question | |
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| Miracle Questioning as Problem Clarification | |
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| Miracle Questioning as Intervention | |
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| The Future Creates the Present | |
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| Summary of Chapter 3 | |
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| Evaluating Attempted Solutions: If It Doesn't Work, Do Something Different | |
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| Eliciting Attempted Solutions | |
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| "What Else?" | |
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| Being Specific | |
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| When "Nothing" Has Been Tried | |
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| Did It Work? | |
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| Conceptualizing Pattern Interruption | |
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| Disrupting Solutions | |
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| Reversing Solutions | |
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| Change Slowly | |
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| Depression: When "Cheer Up" Doesn't Work | |
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| Depression After a Loss | |
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| Depression "Without Reason" | |
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| Anxiety: When "Calm Down" Doesn't Work | |
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| Interrupting Avoidance | |
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| Reversing "Concealing" | |
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| Interrupting "Perfectionism" | |
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| Interrupting Unsuccessful Attempted Solutions in Relationships | |
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| Reframing | |
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| Interrupting Ineffective Communication | |
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| "You Don't Have to Like It" | |
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| Interrupting Promises of Change | |
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| Interrupting "Please Stay" | |
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| Interrupting "You Must Decide" | |
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| Parents and Children: Reversing What Doesn't Work | |
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| Problems with Children | |
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| Problems with Parents | |
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| Attempted Solutions to Eating Problems | |
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| Sexual Solutions: Interrupting "Forced Arousal" | |
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| Recognizing Individualized Attempted Solutions | |
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| Summary of Chapter 4 | |
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| Designing the Intervention: Validation, Compliment, and Suggestion | |
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| The Three-Part Intervention | |
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| The "Break" | |
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| Validating | |
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| Complimenting | |
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| Designing Suggestions for Customers, Complainants, and Visitors | |
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| What Message Will Help Most Today? | |
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| Introducing the Counterintuitive | |
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| Suggestions, Specific and "Generic" | |
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| Specific Suggestions | |
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| Generic Suggestions | |
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| Counterintuitive Approaches: Empathy, not Manipulation | |
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| Summary of Chapter 5 | |
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| You Can Take It With You: What Do You Want to Remember? | |
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| Useful for Therapists and for Clients | |
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| Therapist Influence on Take-Home Points | |
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| Common Themes | |
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| Recognizing Progress, Coping, and Insight | |
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| Therapeutic Relationship Variables | |
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| Images, Metaphors, and Didactic Information | |
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| Plans for Action | |
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| Changes for Relationships | |
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| Acceptance | |
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| Acceptance and Action Simultaneously | |
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| Take-Home Messages Over a Course of Therapy | |
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| Summary of Chapter 6 | |
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| Therapist Decisions: Clarifying, Amplifying, or Interrupting | |
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| General Guidelines | |
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| Speak So the Client Will Hear | |
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| Do What Works | |
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| Other "Rules" | |
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| Straightforward Approaches First | |
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| If It Doesn't Work, Do Something Different | |
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| Breaking the Rules | |
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| When Problem Clarification Doesn't Clarify | |
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| "When Miracle Questions Don't Create Miracles" | |
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| When the Miracle Is the Unsuccessful Attempted Solution | |
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| Shifting from Amplifying to Interrupting | |
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| When Acceptance and Doing Something Different Don't Help | |
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| Back to Specific Techniques | |
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| Return to Clarification of Problems and Expectations | |
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| Shifting Stances as Therapy Progresses | |
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| Amplifying What Works and Interrupting What Doesn't | |
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| Summary of Chapter 7 | |
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| Practical Considerations: Using the Model in Behavioral Health Care | |
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| Medication and the Model | |
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| A Model that "Works" in Managed Care | |
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| Intermittent Care: "The Family Practice Model" | |
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| How Many Sessions? "Not one More Than Necessary" | |
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| Spacing Sessions | |
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| Follow-up Sessions | |
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| "Termination" in Intermittent Care | |
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| Practical Considerations | |
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| Single-Session Therapy | |
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| Caveats in Brief Therapy | |
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| Summary of Chapter 8 | |
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| Couples: Problems and Solutions | |
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| Starting with the Couple Together | |
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| Clarifying the Problem(s) | |
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| Elaborating the Solution(s) | |
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| Three-Part Interventions for Couples | |
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| Jill and Nick: "Communication is a Problem" | |
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| Follow-Up: Together or Separately? | |
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| Follow-Up Together | |
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| Individual Follow-Up | |
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| Individual Sessions in Difficult Situations | |
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| Therapist Concerns | |
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| Starting with one Person | |
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| Values and a Marriage Friendly Stance | |
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| Summary of Chapter 9 | |
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| Doing What Works Group Therapy | |
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| Group Format | |
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| Research on the Group | |
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| The Ingredients of Change | |
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| Case Example | |
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| Summary of Chapter 10 | |
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| Appendix: Doing What Works Group Visualizations | |
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| Group Helped You in Just the Way You Hoped | |
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| Crystal Ball | |
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| Miracle Question | |
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| Act Two | |
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| One Year Reunion | |
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| Positive Psychology and the Strategic Solution Focused Model | |
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| Some Positive Psychology Principles and Techniques | |
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| Using Positive Psychology Tools in Strategic Solution Focused Therapy | |
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| A Technology for Positive Psychology | |
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| Case Examples | |
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| Jamie | |
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| Marla | |
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| Byron | |
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| Miguel | |
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| Some Concerns about the Positive Psychology Movement - and Some Possible Solutions | |
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| Summary of Chapter 11 | |
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| Acceptance and Change and the Model | |
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| The Acceptance Change Cycle in Multiple Approaches | |
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| Acceptance in the Strategic Solution Focused Approach | |
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| Clarifying and "Deconstructing" Difficult Problems | |
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| Coping Questions | |
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| Amplifying the Coping Response | |
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| Interrupting Unsuccessful Coping Solutions | |
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| Coping with Indecision | |
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| Using Therapist Impotence: "I Can't Make it All Go Away" | |
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| The Acceptance/Change Cycle in Therapy | |
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| Summary of Chapter 12 | |
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| Doing What Works as a Transtheoretical Approach | |
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| Common Factors and the Model | |
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| A Doing What Works Philosophy with Techniques from Other Models | |
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| The Research on "What Works" | |
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| Master Therapists Combine Techniques and Improvise | |
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| A Unifying Framework | |
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| A Few Basic Principles | |
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| Summary of Chapter 13 | |
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| Case Examples: Intermittent Care | |
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| Harriet: "I Guess I Come When I Need You" | |
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| Gail: "Rage Attacks Forever" | |
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| Jeffrey and Claudia: Sex Drive Differences | |
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| Excerpts: Single-Session Therapy | |
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| Mary's Miracle | |
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| Liz: "I Blow Up at Him" | |
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| Case Examples and Excerpts: Brief Therapy | |
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| Megan: "Problems with My Father" | |
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| Al: The Words and the Music | |
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| Gloria: The Inconsistent Overeater | |
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| Case Example: Crisis Intervention | |
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| Craig: "It Was Just Time to End It" | |
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| Case Examples: Doing What Works with Longstanding Patterns | |
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| Betsy: Depression and "Losing It" | |
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| Leanne: "I Think I've Always Been a Liar" | |
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| Discussion | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |