It Is More Than the Miracle Question: Deconstructing Solution Focused Therapy (Research, Theory, and Practice Within Academic Affairs)

It is More Than the Miracle Question aims to help counselors, and specifically school counselors, figure out how to utilize a theory, mindset, or belief system in their everyday work with clients. These ideas on how to think like a solution focused counselor were born at the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This book is not a strict academic text but instead offers insights and ideas for utilizing Solution Focused Therapy based on training at the Brief Family Therapy Center, years of supervised practice using Solution Focused therapy, readings, research, and decades of training others on how to utilize Solution Focused Therapy.

Dr. Mark Gillen trained at the Brief Family Therapy Center and has practiced Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) since the mid-1980s. Since 2005, he has worked as a professor at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, USA, where he trains school counselors.

Blake Mayes has been an educator for nearly a decade, first serving as a deaf/blind intervener and then as a high school counselor for the last five school years. He received his MSE in counseling from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, USA.