Becoming Miracle Workers: Language and Learning in Brief Therapy

by Gale Miller

Book Overview

Brief therapy is a postmodern treatment mode that treats problems as social constructions, encouraging those seeking treatment to replace personal troubles (negative stories) with new problem-solving skills (positive stories). The significant differences discussed in this book do not involve sociologists and brief therapists. The differences are between brief therapists, on the one hand, and practitioners of psychotherapy and family therapy on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202305716
• ISBN13: 9780202305714
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An intersting book

This book presents some new concepts or at least presents concepts in a different manner. It is challenging me to change my perceptions and presumptions about some problems and how to deal with them in a clinical situation. I am enjoying this book and the dialog I am creating with fellow clinicians about it. i definitely recommend it.