The Next Generation of Solution Focused Practice

Mark McKergow

ISBN 10: 0367428830 / ISBN 13: 9780367428839

Published by Taylor and Francis Ltd, GB, 2021

About this Item

The Next Generation of Solution Focused Practice shows how practitioners help create change by 'stretching the world' of their clients. The book brings new ideas from enactive cognition which show how skilled attention on the client and their words is important both practically and conceptually. It provides both a summary of the development of Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) over time and how the latest developments form a newly coherent form of practice based on developing descriptions. The author has structured the book using simple and easy to understand metaphors to paint a rich, creative, and visual picture of therapy for the reader, which makes it an accessible read.This book will be of interest to a wide range of SF practitioners internationally, as well as to those involved in coaching, counselling, family therapy, education, social work, healthcare and organisational change.

Seller Inventory # LU-9780367428839

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Next Generation of Solution Focused Practice
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd, GB
• Publication Date: 2021
• ISBN 10: 0367428830
• ISBN 13: 9780367428839
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 400 grams

About this title

Synopsis

The Next Generation of Solution Focused Practice shows how practitioners help create change by ‘stretching the world’ of their clients.

The book brings new ideas from enactive cognition which show how skilled attention on the client and their words is important both practically and conceptually. It provides both a summary of the development of Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) over time and how the latest developments form a newly coherent form of practice based on developing descriptions. The author has structured the book using simple and easy to understand metaphors to paint a rich, creative, and visual picture of therapy for the reader, which makes it an accessible read.

This book will be of interest to a wide range of SF practitioners internationally, as well as to those involved in coaching, counselling, family therapy, education, social work, healthcare and organisational change.

About the Author

Dr Mark McKergow is Director at the Centre for Solutions Focus at Work in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is the author of six books including The Solutions Focus (with Paul Z Jackson) and Hosting Generative Change (BMI, 2020). Mark sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Solution Focused Practice and the Journal of Systemic Therapies, and is a leading light in the SOLWorld community of organisational SF practitioners. He also plays jazz, clarinet and saxophone.