Brief Counselling : Narratives and Solutions

By: Judith Milner, Patrick O'Byrne, Jo Campling (Editor)

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Paperback | 14 March 2002 | Edition Number 1

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This innovative and highly practical text provides an introduction to solution and narrative approaches to brief counselling and demonstrates how they may successfully be combined to create solution talk with clients. Solution talk is a highly flexible and effective way of empowering people to use their own potential for positive change, for coping with what they cannot change, and for re-creating their lives and even their identities.

Judith Milner and Patrick O'Byrne compare and contrast solution talk with other more traditional or problem-oriented approaches to illustrate how a collaborative, co-constructive and empowering way of working may help clients to meet their goals quickly, painlessly and with long-lasting effects. They outline the philosophy, practice principles and specific techniques of solution talk and discuss what to do if no immediate progress is apparent. Through detailed case examples, they illustrate how the approach may be used in client work with a wide range of issues connected to family life, school and work, health, personal safety and leisure.

Brief Counselling: Narratives and Solutions will be an essential text for all trainees and practitioners in counselling, psychotherapy and other health-related professions interested in brief therapeutic approaches and working creatively with clients.

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'It's concise and focused - a characteristic not often associated with therapy textbooks...the book contains many ideas that would be extremely useful in goal planning with service users in a wide range of situations.' - Sharon Lee Cuthbert, Mental Health Today

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Acknowledgements	p. viii
Introduction to Solution talk	p. 1
The rationale and plan of this book	p. 1
Some aspects of brief counselling in general	p. 4
What solution talk is	p. 7
What is different about solution talk	p. 13
Practice principles	p. 18
Counselling narratives	p. 18
Counselling aims	p. 23
Ethical implications	p. 25
A revision of values	p. 27
Empathy	p. 32
Challenging	p. 34
Personal qualities	p. 35
Helping relationships	p. 35
Summary	p. 36
Practice techniques	p. 38
Validation	p. 38
A history of possibilities	p. 39
Externalising	p. 40
Exceptions	p. 42
Agreeing goals	p. 44
The miracle question	p. 45
Scaled questions	p. 48
Thickening the counterplot	p. 50
Tasks	p. 51
The first session	p. 56
Using the space between setting a date and the first session	p. 56
Setting the scene	p. 59
History-taking and goal-setting	p. 64
Setting tasks to strengthen solutions	p. 69
Evaluating of the session and ending it	p. 71
Reflecting on the first session	p. 72
Supervision	p. 74
Subsequent sessions	p. 75
What's better?	p. 75
When things are better	p. 76
When things are the same	p. 83
When things are worse	p. 87
When things are mixed	p. 88
When the process seems to be stuck	p. 90
Ending	p. 91
Summary	p. 92
Thoughts on personal relationships	p. 93
Psychologising relationships	p. 93
An interactional lens on relationships	p. 96
Women's concerns	p. 98
Men's misery	p. 102
Couples work	p. 108
Separation or divorce	p. 110
School and work	p. 112
Taking age-appropriate responsibility	p. 116
Shifting the locus of control	p. 120
Coping with stress through discovering new skills	p. 128
Personal safety and well-being	p. 132
Reclaiming self-hood	p. 134
Violence	p. 138
Suicidal and self-harming clients	p. 140
Eating management--creating balance	p. 142
Reauthoring psychiatric stories	p. 144
Happiness, leisure and recreation	p. 151
Loneliness, love and friendship	p. 152
Unhappiness through grief and loss	p. 155
Rest, relaxation and sleep	p. 157
Seeking happiness through substance abuse	p. 160
Conclusion	p. 169
Our philosophical assumptions	p. 169
Does it work?	p. 172
Outcome studies	p. 176
Recommended further reading	p. 178
Scales	p. 179
Survival of poor parenting	p. 180
Starting a new life after abuse	p. 181
Reclaiming life after drugs	p. 182
Overcoming violence	p. 183
Getting and keeping a girl-friend	p. 184
Student strengths scale	p. 185
Bibliography	p. 187
Index	p. 195
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