Solution-Focused Therapy Beyond Techniques: Working with Emotions and Therapeutic Relationships

Solution-focused therapy is often perceived merely as a set of techniques — a pragmatic approach that helps the psychotherapist ask questions that encourage clients to rethink their own problems and rely on their strengths. However, if these techniques are applied unchanged to everyone, they may not yield the desired results. As a result, clients leave disappointed, and therapists are puzzled about what could have gone wrong. This book lays a serious theoretical foundation that allows therapists to find unconventional solutions where ready-made recommendations do not work. The main focus here is on how an emphasis on emotional issues, which are traditionally not addressed in short-term psychotherapy models, allows one to escape difficult situations and find successful solutions.