Doing Something Different: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Practices

Many books on solution-focused brief therapy provide histories, overviews, and uses of the approach. This book does not do any of those things. What it does is provide those interested in the solution-focused approach with a plethora of ideas for practice, training, and simply enjoying the solution-focused approach and its practice in therapy, consulting, supervision, coaching, and enjoying solution-focused ideas. The book includes favorite quotes and stories, outrageous moments in therapy, and a list of solution-focused songs. Anyone who enjoys the approach in any manner should find something that grabs the interest and tickles the senses and sensibilities. Readers should come away informed, entertained, thoughtful, and amused.

Thorana S. Nelson, PhD, has been practicing and teaching family therapy for over 25 years. She is currently a Professor of Family Therapy in the Department of Family, Consumer, and Human Development at Utah State University; a clinical member and approved supervisor of AAMFT; a founding member and member of the Board of Directors of the Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Association; and an author and co-editor of several books.