Full Description
Are you tired of having to compromise your philosophy of counseling to fit the world of managed care? Are you trying to save time while creating a hopeful atmosphere for your clients? Are you looking for more effective ways to encourage responsibility, raise self-esteem and develop life-long abilities in your clients? This book offers a new strategy for any helping professional who answered yes to the above questions. Based on Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, the 4-P Solutioning process provides therapists with key methods to end blaming, encourage responsibility, and empower clients to find and use solutions. Solutioning is not an all-encompassing theory that requires a radical change in philosophy, but a language that promotes growth, change, and flexibility. It encourages the practitioner to blend tried-and-true techniques with the solutioning attitude and supplementary interventions, allowing the efficiency necessary for managed care survival. This book provides therapists with: The language of the 4-Ps, taught using easily accessible practice sheets; skill highlights which focus on pre-existing skills that can be given a solutioning slant; solutioning applications that illustrate how particular interventions apply to common mental health issues; intakes, treatment plans, progress notes, and many other usable tools, along with specific adaptations for family, couple, and play therapy; a complete solutioning group program and the curriculum for teaching the 4-P process with lessons and handouts.
Contents
Acknowledgments. Introduction. Chapter 1: Building Blocks. Timing Is Everything. Building Blocks of Belief. Building Blocks of Language. Building Blocks from Within. Some Solutioning Questions for You. Chapter 2: Ready, Set, Go: The First P-Purpose. Teaming. Externalizing the Opponent. Purposeful Thinking. Reconstructing the Problem. Purpose: In Summary. Chapter 3: Getting There Is Half The Fun: The Second P-Potentials. Potential Questions. A mindset for Solutions. Hunting for Lost Treasure: Past Potential. Strike While the Iron Is Hot: Present Potential. Use Your Imagination: Pretend Potential. Using It for All It's Worth. Borrowing: People Potential. Potentials: In Summary. Chapter 4: Just do It! The Third P-Plan. Detecting: The Positive Plan. Rehearsing: The Pretend Plan. Performing: The Plan. So Long, Sabotage! The Final Element. Scaling Out a Plan. Plans: In Summary. Chapter 5: Forget Me Not: The Final P-Progress. Seeing Progress. Practicing Responsible Success. Take It and Run. Mixing in Reality. And the Survey Says. What's Next? Progress Notes. Progress: In Summary.
