Description
1. Introduction: Competency-Based Future-Oriented Therapy, Hoyt. 2. On the Importance of Keeping It Simple and Taking the Patient Seriously: A Conversation with Steve de Shazer and John Weakland, Hoyt . 3. Solution Talk: The Solution-Oriented Way of Talking about Problems, Furman and Ahola . 4. Narrative Intentions, Combs and Freedman . 5. Some Questions (Not Answers) for the Brief Treatment of People with Drug and Alcohol Problems, Miller . 6. ""On Track"" in Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Walter and Peller . 7. Basic Elements in the Brief Therapies, Fisch . 8. Single-Session Solutions, Hoyt . 9. Coauthoring a Love Story: Solution-Oriented Marital Therapy, O'Hanlon and Hudson . 10. Entering One Another's Worlds of Meaning and Imagination: Dramatic Enactment and Narrative Couple Therapy, Roth and Chasin . 11. Staying Simple, Staying Focused: Time-Effective Consultations with Children and Families, Friedman . 12. Solving the Unknown Problem, Greenleaf . 13. Solution-Focused Therapy with a Case of Severe Abuse, Dolan . 14. Tales of the Body Thief: Externalizing and Deconstructing Eating Problems, Zimmerman and Dickerson .