Main description:

Solution-Focused Therapy with Children and Adolescents offers mental health professionals an integration of creative and playful approaches and solution-focused therapy. The author presents developmentally appropriate and expressive alternatives to oral communication including sandtray, writing, puppetry, drawing and coloring, photography, and music. The text presents an overview of strength-based and creative approaches with a focused examination of the philosophy and process of solution-focused therapy, then divides chapters into specific stages of therapy-beginnings, searching for treasure, setting goals, and ending the session-with creative techniques offered in each section. The final chapter addresses working with children and adolescents in solution-focused groups, including how to set up groups and progress through different group stages, presenting specific techniques and activities focused on each stage of the group process.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Strength-Based Approaches Chapter 3 Creative and Playful Approaches Chapter 4 Client Considerations Chapter 5 Solutions-Focused Therapy and Integration with Creative and Tangible Approaches Chapter 6 Motivating the Client Chapter 7 Beginnings Chapter 8 Digging for Treasure Chapter 9 The Miracle Question and other Goal-setting Techniques Chapter 10 Ending the Session Chapter 11 Follow-up Sessions Chapter 12 Solution-focused Group Approaches