{"title":"The Solution-Focused Supervision Handbook by Dion Sing","authors":"Frank N Thomas","doi":"10.59874/001c.90199","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59874/001c.90199","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137801,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Solution Focused Practices","volume":"150 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139245122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Living Well With Cancer: A Solution-Focused Approach by Dominic Bray","authors":"Louise Bower Hatchard","doi":"10.59874/001c.87676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59874/001c.87676","url":null,"abstract":"This book is a quick read and is written with humour and humility by Dr Dominic Bray, a British consultant clinical psychologist. It is structured in ten short chapters with most pages having footnotes giving optional extra details for clarity or self-deprecating quips which British readers will recognize as a sign of understated yet assured competence.","PeriodicalId":137801,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Solution Focused Practices","volume":"167 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133902397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Relationspaces: A Solution-focused Handbook for Parents by Vicky Essebag","authors":"L. Davcheva","doi":"10.59874/001c.85163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59874/001c.85163","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137801,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Solution Focused Practices","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126434819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Solution-Focused Circle Technique: A Visual Tool for Discovering Strengths and Facilitating Change in Therapy and Counseling","authors":"Arnoud Huibers, B. Furman","doi":"10.59874/001c.75018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59874/001c.75018","url":null,"abstract":"The Circle Technique is a solution-focused tool for discovering clients' resources, competencies and desired changes, essential aspects of solution-focused psychology. Using two concentric circles, the practitioner guides the client to find resources and ideas about what they want to change and solutions they can use within their social context. The visual tool allows the practitioner and the client to act as explorers, like Marco Polo or Columbus, discovering new worlds. The Circle Technique can be applied in diverse settings to empower a wide range of clients to find valuable ideas. The information found with the help of the circles feels meaningful to clients; it creates a strong sense of ownership, increasing their engagement in the therapeutic process and establishing a good working alliance. Feedback from clients and practitioners has confirmed that visualizing the clients' answers within the two concentric circles has essential benefits. It helps clients focus and keep track of the conversation. Visualizing their answers is particularly important for clients with short attention spans or who miss the capacity to give extensive verbalizations. The article shows how practitioners can use the Circle Technique to discover clients' strengths and help them rapidly define well-formed goals for the therapeutic process.","PeriodicalId":137801,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Solution Focused Practices","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127307401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What Is Helpful: The Client’s Perception of the Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Process by Level of Engagement","authors":"Andreea M Żak","doi":"10.59874/001c.75017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59874/001c.75017","url":null,"abstract":"The current study aimed to explore what elements from the solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) process clients perceive as helpful and how their perception varies by level of engagement. The replication of the SFBT model from the perspective of clients residing outside the USA was also examined. A mixed-method design was used in a naturalistic setting in Poland. Clients (N = 346; 74% females) aged 18 to 67 attending psychotherapy in private practice were interviewed. Thematic analysis revealed eleven main themes. The SFBT-specific themes replicated the original model, yet a more ordered organization of core elements emerged than currently existing ones. The elements perceived as helpful significantly varied by the level of engagement. The two generic themes identified suggest that allowing the client to talk things out while working toward awareness and understanding is an essential environment in which the solution-focused co-construction process takes place.","PeriodicalId":137801,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Solution Focused Practices","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124516349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"No Theory Solution Focused Practices Is a Way of Life: A Further Step to an Ecology of Mind","authors":"Nick Drury","doi":"10.59874/001c.75022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59874/001c.75022","url":null,"abstract":"This paper sets out to explore some of Wittgenstein’s writings as they pertain to Solution Focused Practices (SFP). One of the conclusions of this paper is that SFP is a philosophy, Wittgenstein’s philosophy as a way of life for practitioners, and there is no need for any theory if you understand this. I shall begin by providing a summary of Wittgenstein’s philosophy, then move on to look at Freud’s influence on Wittgenstein. Each was dissolving problems. We then see the importance of describing family-therapy-as-a-system (rather than just the family-as-a-system); or how to think within a system we are part of, and the wider implications of that. This is an ancient problem. We can no longer stand apart from a system we are part of, and apply an Archimedean lever to it, as our traditional technologies have tried to do, but adopt a new “game” from within. Understanding SFP as a language game, or as a form of life, enables this to emerge. As an aside we see that this leads us into the new science of enactivism. There we find the profound ethics for the practitioner that go with that position. De Shazer was following what is known as the ’later Wittgenstein’ when he claimed that “solution focused brief therapy has no theory” (Korman et al., 2020, p. 2). However, sometimes in learning a new skill “training wheels” are useful, but they must be discarded (not internalised) as the skill is mastered (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986). An ethics first philosophy follows if this is done.","PeriodicalId":137801,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Solution Focused Practices","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115871399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Taiwanese High School Counselors’ Experiences in a Solution-Focused Supervision Training Program","authors":"W. Hsu, Hsuan-Jung Chen","doi":"10.59874/001c.75023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59874/001c.75023","url":null,"abstract":"This Article is protected by copyright and/or related rights. It has been brought to you by Digital Scholarship@UNLV with permission from the rights-holder(s). You are free to use this Article in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s) directly, unless additional rights are indicated by a Creative Commons license in the record and/ or on the work itself.","PeriodicalId":137801,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Solution Focused Practices","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130983939","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guest Editorial: Thank Your Mother for the Rabbits","authors":"D. Hains","doi":"10.59874/001c.75015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59874/001c.75015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137801,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Solution Focused Practices","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130334291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"December 2022 Front Matter","authors":"","doi":"10.59874/001c.75014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.59874/001c.75014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":137801,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Solution Focused Practices","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133744480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}