American Psychological Association Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Families: A Training Manual

This step-by-step training manual guides readers through the clinical practice of solution-focused brief therapy (SFBT) for use with families. This book presents SFBT to family psychologists and other therapists and health care professionals in related fields in an easy to learn format that provides specific clinical skills and case examples to enhance learning. It provides an overview of SFBT a brief history of its origins underlying theory and research and session sequencing and tools for using the SFBT approach with families and teaches the reader how to conduct an SFBT session from beginning to end. Detailed procedures and case examples in this book illustrate practice with diverse clients in clinical and counseling settings including the challenges therapists may face in working with families and how to avoid roadblocks in therapy. Readers will gain valuable insights and practical guidance in how to use this effective approach to therapeutic change.