Children's Solution Work (Hardcover)

Insoo Kim Berg

ISBN 10: 0393703878 / ISBN 13: 9780393703870

Published by WW Norton & Co, New York, 2003

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Hardcover. Therapists often despair when considering using Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), so successful with adults, with children. Insoo Kim Berg and Therese Steiner show this despair to be unwarranted. These two master therapists lead readers through a series of conceptual and practical steps that elucidate just how the nonverbal, playful, and creative habits of children can support successful therapy based on the SFBT model. Children's Solution Work is necessary reading for anyone who associates with children and takes a concern for their development?linicians, social workers, teachers, daycare workers, and parents. By focusing on and expanding the bases for engagement and communication between adult and child, Berg and Steiner provide adaptable tools for diagnosis, therapy, and negotiating differences at home. Full of examples and case studies, the Children's Solution Work demonstrates creative techniques and strategies for working with children without relying exclusively on language or conceptual thinking. The application of these techniques is discussed in various contexts and situations, including adapting them to suit cases of children with uncommon needs. Berg and Steiner also address questions typically raised by clinicians about the use of SFBT with children and consider the usefulness of this form of SFBT when working with adolescents. How to use solution-focused therapy with children and adolescents. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Children's Solution Work (Hardcover)
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co, New York
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393703878
• ISBN 13: 9780393703870
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

How to use solution-focused therapy with children and adolescents.

Focusing on solutions and not problems, thinking about the future and not the past, and understanding the effects of miracles―children do these things naturally. Here, leaders in the solution-focused approach to therapy provide clinicians with a guide to a kind of therapy that fits with children's natural way of being.

About the Author

Insoo Kim Berg, MSW, codeveloped Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and is Director of the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her most recent books are Children’s Solution Work (with Therese Steiner) and Interviewing for Solutions (with Peter de Jonge).