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• Preface
• Overview of the Contents
• What’s New in This Edition
• Who Can Benefit From This Book
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• 1. Counseling in Schools and Other Settings: Problems and Solutions
• Origins of Solution-Focused Brief Counseling
• Differences and Similarities
• Effectiveness
• Core “Rules”
• Solution-Focused Assumptions
• Additional Guiding Concepts
• Summary
• Practice Exercise
• 2. Setting Goals
• Opening the First Meeting: Establishing Rapport and Explaining the Process
• Developing a Positive Goal
• The Miracle Question
• “What Else” Questions
• Establishing Well-Developed Goals: An Overview
• Summary
• Practice Exercises
• 3. Discovering and Constructing Solutions
• Discovering Unrecognized Solutions: Instances of Success
• Empowering Clients Through Recognition of Their Resources
• Scaling a Baseline and Progress
• Flagging the Minefield: Identifying and Overcoming Obstacles
• Concluding the Initial Session With a Message
• Summary
• Practice Exercise
• 4. Connecting the Pieces
• Components of the First Session
• Case Study From a Mental Health Setting: Session
• Case Study Transcript From a School Setting: Session 1 With Pedro
• Summary
• Practice Exercises
• 5. Abbreviated SFBC Session
• Explaining the Process
• Determining What the Client Wants to Achieve
• Using Scaling to Determine Clients’ Views of Their Present Situation
• What’s the Highest Number the Client Has Ever Been?
• Writing the Message
• A Case of an Abbreviated SFBC Session
• Summary
• 6. Conducting Subsequent Sessions
• Subsequent Sessions: Getting Started
• Components of Second and Subsequent Sessions
• Assessing Whether Further Counseling Is Needed
• Writing the Message
• Tools for Second and Subsequent Sessions: Flow Chart and Note Sheet
• Subsequent Session From a Mental Health Setting
• Subsequent Sessions With Pedro From a School Setting
• Summary
• 7. Working With Reluctant Clients and Challenging Situations
• Helping Involuntary Clients Become Customers for Counseling
• SFBC With Students Mandated for Counseling in Lieu of Disciplinary Action
• Turning Difficult Situations Into Workable Goals
• Summary
• 8. Expanded Applications of Solution-Focused Concepts
• 10-Second “Counseling”
• Solution-Focused Counseling Referral Form
• Using Puppets in SFBC
• Using Sand Trays in SFBC
• Solution-Focused Group Counseling
• Classroom Counseling Using SFBC Methods
• Solution-Focused Parent–Teacher Conferences
• Solution-Focused Guided Imagery
• Summary
• Final Thoughts
• Appendix A: Practice Detailing a Nonspecific Goal
• Appendix B: Counseling Session With Kasey: A Practice Exercise
• Appendix C: Solution-Focused Guided Imagery
• References
• Index