Product Description

This book adds a vital dimension to the literature by showing how attention to emotional issues and the therapeutic alliance can help "unstick" difficult situations and pave the way to successful solutions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #390286 in Books
• Published on: 2002-07-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 230 pages

Review
'At last, someone has written a book that integrates the practical simplicity of solution-focused work with the crucial presence of emotion and relationship. Eve Lipchik liberates our understanding of feelings from cumbersome theoretical frameworks, and shows how they are a basic currency in the therapeutic exchange. This book is eminently practical and theoretically illuminating. I highly recommend it.' - Stephen Gilligan, PhD, author of Therapeutic Trances and The Courage to Love 'Rarely does a book convey its message so well or so strongly... This book shows that when therapists listen to and talk about struggle and emotion - as well as strengths and hope - clients make their own changes. Eve Lipchik writes like she works, sensitively weaving her ideas through many case examples and applications, from the emotionally overwhelmed individual to violent couples, crisis situations, and longterm situations. Treat yourself to the richness and practical wisdom of her experience and perspective.' - John Walter, LCSW, and Jane Peller, LCSW, authors of Recreating Brief Therapy 'In this clear yet clinically and theoretically sophisticated volume, Eve Lipchik dispels all the stereotypes of solution-focused therapy (SFT), so that even SFT skeptics will want to give the model a second look. Her version cherishes the uniqueness of clients, is nonformulaic, emotion-focused, and privileges the client-therapist relationship over technique. For Lipchik, SFT goes slowly; clients, not therapists, determine when they want to talk about solutions. Replete with rich case illustrations (which heretofore I would have assumed to be 'too complex' for SFT), the volume has left me with the imprint of a master teacher and clinician and has greatly enriched my practice.' - Douglas H. Sprenkle, PhD, Marriage and Family Therapy Program, Purdue University

From the Back Cover
Solution-focused therapy is often misunderstood to be a one-size-fits-all approach. This book adds a vital dimension to the literature by showing how attention to emotional issues and the therapeutic alliance, traditionally not emphasized in brief, strengths-based work, can help "unstick" difficult situations and pave the way to successful solutions. Using extensive case material, and drawing on the theories of Harry Stack Sullivan, Milton Erickson, and Humberto Maturana, Eve Lipchik brings to life not only what an experienced clinician does at particular moments in therapy, but why. Addressed are such vital questions as what to respond to and what to ignore in a solution-focused interview; what to do when clients do not respond to positive, future-oriented questions or goal definition; how to formulate the message and task at the end of the session; and how to apply the model to different populations and situations.