Solution-Focused Therapy with Children and Adolescents offers mental health professionals an integration of creative and playful approaches and solution-focused therapy. The author presents developmentally appropriate and expressive alternatives to oral communication including sandtray, writing, puppetry, drawing and coloring, photography, and music. The text presents an overview of strength-based and creative approaches with a focused examination of the philosophy and process of solution-focused therapy, then divides chapters into specific stages of therapy-beginnings, searching for treasure, setting goals, and ending the session-with creative techniques offered in each section. The final chapter addresses working with children and adolescents in solution-focused groups, including how to set up groups and progress through different group stages, presenting specific techniques and activities focused on each stage of the group process.
Solution-Focused Therapy with Children and Adolescents offers mental health professionals an integration of creative and playful approaches and solution-focused therapy. The author presents developmentally appropriate and expressive alternatives to oral communication including sandtray, writing, puppetry, drawing and coloring, photography, and music. The text presents an overview of strength-based and creative approaches with a focused examination of the philosophy and process of solution-focused therapy, then divides chapters into specific stages of therapy-beginnings, searching for treasure, setting goals, and ending the session-with creative techniques offered in each section. The final chapter addresses working with children and adolescents in solution-focused groups, including how to set up groups and progress through different group stages, presenting specific techniques and activities focused on each stage of the group process.
Über den Autor
Elizabeth R. Taylor, PhD, LPC-S, LMFT, RPT-S teaches counseling at Texas Christian University. As a licensed counselor and play therapist, she has presented workshops on solution-focused therapy, play therapy, and resiliency at state, national, and international conferences.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Strength-Based Approaches Chapter 3 Creative and Playful Approaches Chapter 4 Client Considerations Chapter 5 Solutions-Focused Therapy and Integration with Creative and Tangible Approaches Chapter 6 Motivating the Client Chapter 7 Beginnings Chapter 8 Digging for Treasure Chapter 9 The Miracle Question and other Goal-setting Techniques Chapter 10 Ending the Session Chapter 11 Follow-up Sessions Chapter 12 Solution-focused Group Approaches