Solution-Focused Interviewing: Applying Positive Psychology: A Manual for Practitioners

By Ronald E Warner

Too often doctors, therapists, and social workers ask "what's wrong in your life?" rather than "what do you want?" Ronald E. Warner's Solution-Focused Interviewing is a practical guide to talking to clients using a solution-driven and strength-based approach that empowers clients and helps them to find lasting solutions to their problems.

In Solution-Focused Interviewing, asking questions about clients' goals and resources ­- the strengths that will let them change their lives - is the basis of a three-phase therapeutic process that builds empathy before helping clients to set realistic goals and build a plan to achieve them.

Based on more than two decades of solution-focused therapy workshops and Warner's extensive clinical experience, Solution-Focused Interviewing is the first skill development manual based on this innovative tri-phase approach to interviewing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442615494
• ISBN13: 9781442615496
• Release Date: October 2013
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"