Reading List
Baxter, J., & Naff, C.D. (1997). An owner's guide to parenting teenagers:
A step-by-step, solution-focused approach to raising adolescents without
losing your mind. Real Life. ISBN: 0965065103
De Jong, P., & Kim Berg, I. (1997). Interviewing for solutions (Social Work Series). Belmont, CA: Brooks/Cole.
LaFountain, R.M., (1996). Solution-focused counseling groups: A key for school counselors. School Counselor; Vol. 43(4), p256-67.
Levy, E. (1998). Solution focused therapy with children: Harnessing family strengths for systemic change. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent, Psychiatry, Vol. 37(6).
Littrell, J.M. (1998). Brief counseling in action. New York, NY: W. W. Norton & Company.
Metcalf, L. (1998). Solution focused group therapy: Ideas for groups in private practice, schools, agencies, and treatment programs. Free Press.
Metcalf, L. (1995). Counseling toward solutions: A practical solution-focused program for working with students, teachers and parents. West Nyack, NY: Center for Applied Research in Education.
Metcalf, L., & Miller, S.D. (1992). Parenting toward solutions : How parents can use skills they already have to raise responsible, loving kids. Upper Saddle River NJ: Prentice Hall.
Metcalf, L. (1998). Teaching toward solutions. West Nyack, NY: Center for Applied Research in Education.
Murphy, J.J. (1997). Solution-focused counseling in middle and high schools. Alexandria, VA: American Counseling Association.
O'Hanlon, W.H., & Weiner-Davis, M., (1989). In search of solutions: A new direction in psychotherapy. W W Norton & Company.
Santa Rita, E. (1996). The solution-focused supervision model for counselors teaching in the classroom. ERIC_NO: ED393524
Sklare, G.B. (1997). Brief counseling that works: A solution-focused approach for school counselors (Practical Skills for Counselors). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Walter, J.L., & Peller, J.E. (1992). Becoming solution-focused in brief therapy. New York, NY: Brunner/Mazel.
Webb, W. H. (1999). The educator's guide to solutioning: The great things that happen when you focus students on solutions, not problems. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Some interesting solution focused websites:
A Mini Solution-Focused Brief Counseling Guided Imagery Experience. This paper will describe an exercise that can be used to introduce counseling students in a classroom setting to Solution-Focused Brief Counseling (SFBC). As part of a SFBC presentation, this activity provides students with a personal "mini" solution-focused experience to familiarize them with basic concepts related to this model of counseling via a guided imagery. http://www.ulm.edu/~mft/guideimage.rtf
Bill O'Hanlon's Page (Bill O'Hanlon is a psychotherapist who was a developer of Solution-Oriented Therapy and a founder of Possibility and Inclusive Therapies. Includes bibliographies and free handouts. http://www.brieftherapy.com/
Brief Therapy Family Center. A great deal of useful content such as information about books, video and audiotapes you can purchase; complete references related to SFBT; questions and answers commonly asked in training session and workshops; short essays and papers you can download and print out; useful handout material you can download and print out; and links to other sites on research, training, and other resources in this area. http://www.brief-therapy.org/
Brief Therapy Institute of Sydney
http://www.brieftherapysydney.com.au/
From the American Counselor Association: Solution Focused Counseling in the Middle and High Schools - Part 1 http://www.counseling.org/enews/volume_1/0101b.htm
From the American Counselor Association: Solution Focused Counseling in the Middle and High Schools - Part 2 http://www.counseling.org/enews/volume_1/0102b.htm
Psychnet-UK. A host of resources.
http://www.psychnet-uk.com/psychotherapy/psychotherapy_brief_solution_focused.htm
Solution-focused Therapy Bulletin Board (Click on Solution Focused
Therapy link)
http://www.behavior.net
Solution Focused Therapy site with an introduction, tips, publications,
and more
http://www.enabling.org/ia/sft/
Solution Talk also has links to online publications and other
SF resources.
http://www.solutiontalk.ab.ca/
Solution-Focused Therapy for the Not-So-Brief Clinician article by Phillip B. Ziegler, M.A., M.F.C.C. http://www.onlinerecovery.org/sg/solution.html
Solutions Focus. This web site offers a practical guide to solution-focused
ideas for consulting, facilitation and change in business and organizations.
It is a resource for anyone interested in applying a solutions focus approach,
particularly to organizations, business and other 'non-therapy' areas. http://www.thesolutionsfocus.com/