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.
Table of Contents:
Part One: Background
1. Introduction and Overview
Purpose of the Manual
2. Fast Track to Beginning Practice
Solution-Focused Interviewing: Description
Tri-Phase Model of the Solution-Building Process
3. Human Development and Models of Psychology
Theoretical Orientations
The Positive Psychology Movement
Part Two: The Tri-Phase Model for Learning Solution-Building Skills
4. The Solution-Focused Approach
SFBT: Description and Background
Post- Traumatic Growth
Development of the Tri-Phase Approach
Evaluating Solution-Focused Training
5. Empathy Phase: Establishing Rapport
Effective Listening Skills: Components and Techniques
Becoming Solution-Focused
Role of Emotions and Negative Feeling
6. Goal Setting Phase: Discovering What’s Wanted
The Key Skill of Solution-Building: Be Patient
Discovering Client Goals
Goal-Development
7. Goal Striving Phase: Building a Solution
Five Primary Interventions Questions
End-of-Interview Break and Next-Step Action Plan
Delivery of Feedback and Next-Step Action Plan
Strategies for Weight-Management in a Healthcare Setting
A Note to the Reader
Appendixes
A) SFI Questions: Handy Reference
B) Brief Post-Traumatic Growth Rating Scale
C) Training and Certification Opportunities
D) A Paradigm Shift: My Journey
References
