Solution-Focused Therapy with Children and Adolescents

Creative and Play-Based Approaches

Elizabeth R. Taylor

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781351680684
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Psychotherapy
• Index: Psychology

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.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Strength-Based Approaches
• 3 Creative and Playful Approaches
• 4 Client Considerations
• 5 Solution-Focused Therapy and Integration with Creative and Tangible Approaches
• 6 Motivating the Client
• 7 Beginnings
• 8 Digging for Treasure
• 9 The Miracle Question and other Goal-Setting Techniques
• 10 Ending the Session
• 11 Follow-Up Sessions
• 12 Solution-Focused Group Approaches
• Appendix
• Index