Solution Manual for The Power of Logic, 6th Edition by
Howard, 9781259231209, Covering Chapters 1-10 |
Includes Rationales
Problem Focused Brief Therapy - ANSWER: Thinks of problems in terms of repeated patterns of
behavior and concentrates on how the attempted solutions employed by clients and others might be
maintaining the problem pattern. Practitioners job is to identify the repetitive swquence and
encourage the client to do something different.
Problem Focused Brief Therapy Issues - ANSWER: -issues of obtaining client compliance in carrying
out the suggestions
-Mental Research Institute team gave a great deal of attention to overcoming client 'resistance'
Solution Based Therapy - ANSWER: Looking, not at client resistance, but at client cooperation.
The Death of Resistance - ANSWER: -published in 1984
-Steve de Shazer
-proposed that resistance be redefined as "the clients unique was of cooperating"
-move from a focus on helping clients to do something different to a focus on what they were already
doing that works
Solution Focused Brief Therapy Pillars - ANSWER: 1. Whatever the problem behavior is, there will
always be exceptions, times the problem is less apparent or even absent altogether.
2. necessary to establish the preferred outcome at the outset, so that practitioner and client alike can
know if the work is progressing and when it has reached a successful conclusion.
From Problem to Solution - ANSWER: Rather than trying to understand and fix problems the Solution
Focused approach works by exploring, in detail, a clients preferred future for when their hopes from
the work have been achieved, and then identifying the possible resources and strengths the clients
has for attaining that future.
Essence of Solution Focused Practice is - ANSWER: -to look for resources rather than dificits
-to explore possible and preferred futures
-explore what is already contributing to those futures
First Session - ANSWER: 1. Opening
2. Future Focus
3. Past and present focus: instances & exceptions
4. Highlighting Progress
5. Closing
Opening - ANSWER: -interest in the non-problematic side of the clients life, indicates from the
beginning, and interest in the person rather than just the problem that brought the client in
Future Focus - ANSWER: -best hopes (what the client wants from work), until established the worker
can only be basing questions on what the worker believes to be right for the client
-preferred future, the difference of what those best hopes will have on the client
, Past and Present Focus - ANSWER: -Instances that their preferred future already takes place and what
they could do more of that they feel is created their preferred future
-Exceptions, what the client is doing differently when the problem isn't happening
-Coping Question, how the client manages to keep going in tough situations
Highlighting Progress - ANSWER: -ask questions to establish the progress that the client has already
made and what the next tiny signs of further progress might look like
-scaling question (0 to 10)
Closing - ANSWER: -offer partial summary of the meeting highlighting whatever the client said that
could be associated with the client making further progress
-on some occasions a suggetion might be offered
Second and Subsequent Sessions - ANSWER: -Exploring Changes
-Next sign of progress
-Closing
Exploring Changes - ANSWER: -follow-up sessions start by exploring what clients have done since the
previous meeting that is regarded as 'better' and more generally what clients have done that is useful
-if lack of prgress, want to explore how they kept going through the tough times
Nest Signs of Progress - ANSWER: -toward the end of follow up meetings, ask questions which invite
the client to specify what further tiny evidence of change might look like
-scaling question
Meeting the Person, Not the Problem - ANSWER: -the client is the client and the problem is the
problem, they are two separate things
-the client is always more than the problem that they bring
-build the client a context of competence (feeling able to be an active participant in the changing
process)
Problem Free Talk - ANSWER: -talking with the client about anything in the clients life apart from the
problem
Discovering Areas of Competence/ Resource Focused Talk - ANSWER: -if the problem is mainly related
to one area of the clients life it may be useful to talk with the client about another area of life within
the client feels more competents
Life Before the Problem - ANSWER: -can be experienced as validating by clients in the recognition that
life has not always been the way it is now
Listening to the Problem - ANSWER: -seeking to acknowledge what they are going through but not
asking questions that might lead them to expand on their problems
Listening with a 'Constructive Ear' - ANSWER: -listening through our clients talk for evidence of
resource and asking questions which are likely to elicit resourceful answers
Identifying Resources/Noticing and Naming - ANSWER: -help clients to notice and to name what they
do that is useful for them
-strategy questions
-identity questions
Strategy Questions - ANSWER: -what did you do to manage that?
-how did you do that?
-how did you get through that time?
Howard, 9781259231209, Covering Chapters 1-10 |
Includes Rationales
Problem Focused Brief Therapy - ANSWER: Thinks of problems in terms of repeated patterns of
behavior and concentrates on how the attempted solutions employed by clients and others might be
maintaining the problem pattern. Practitioners job is to identify the repetitive swquence and
encourage the client to do something different.
Problem Focused Brief Therapy Issues - ANSWER: -issues of obtaining client compliance in carrying
out the suggestions
-Mental Research Institute team gave a great deal of attention to overcoming client 'resistance'
Solution Based Therapy - ANSWER: Looking, not at client resistance, but at client cooperation.
The Death of Resistance - ANSWER: -published in 1984
-Steve de Shazer
-proposed that resistance be redefined as "the clients unique was of cooperating"
-move from a focus on helping clients to do something different to a focus on what they were already
doing that works
Solution Focused Brief Therapy Pillars - ANSWER: 1. Whatever the problem behavior is, there will
always be exceptions, times the problem is less apparent or even absent altogether.
2. necessary to establish the preferred outcome at the outset, so that practitioner and client alike can
know if the work is progressing and when it has reached a successful conclusion.
From Problem to Solution - ANSWER: Rather than trying to understand and fix problems the Solution
Focused approach works by exploring, in detail, a clients preferred future for when their hopes from
the work have been achieved, and then identifying the possible resources and strengths the clients
has for attaining that future.
Essence of Solution Focused Practice is - ANSWER: -to look for resources rather than dificits
-to explore possible and preferred futures
-explore what is already contributing to those futures
First Session - ANSWER: 1. Opening
2. Future Focus
3. Past and present focus: instances & exceptions
4. Highlighting Progress
5. Closing
Opening - ANSWER: -interest in the non-problematic side of the clients life, indicates from the
beginning, and interest in the person rather than just the problem that brought the client in
Future Focus - ANSWER: -best hopes (what the client wants from work), until established the worker
can only be basing questions on what the worker believes to be right for the client
-preferred future, the difference of what those best hopes will have on the client
, Past and Present Focus - ANSWER: -Instances that their preferred future already takes place and what
they could do more of that they feel is created their preferred future
-Exceptions, what the client is doing differently when the problem isn't happening
-Coping Question, how the client manages to keep going in tough situations
Highlighting Progress - ANSWER: -ask questions to establish the progress that the client has already
made and what the next tiny signs of further progress might look like
-scaling question (0 to 10)
Closing - ANSWER: -offer partial summary of the meeting highlighting whatever the client said that
could be associated with the client making further progress
-on some occasions a suggetion might be offered
Second and Subsequent Sessions - ANSWER: -Exploring Changes
-Next sign of progress
-Closing
Exploring Changes - ANSWER: -follow-up sessions start by exploring what clients have done since the
previous meeting that is regarded as 'better' and more generally what clients have done that is useful
-if lack of prgress, want to explore how they kept going through the tough times
Nest Signs of Progress - ANSWER: -toward the end of follow up meetings, ask questions which invite
the client to specify what further tiny evidence of change might look like
-scaling question
Meeting the Person, Not the Problem - ANSWER: -the client is the client and the problem is the
problem, they are two separate things
-the client is always more than the problem that they bring
-build the client a context of competence (feeling able to be an active participant in the changing
process)
Problem Free Talk - ANSWER: -talking with the client about anything in the clients life apart from the
problem
Discovering Areas of Competence/ Resource Focused Talk - ANSWER: -if the problem is mainly related
to one area of the clients life it may be useful to talk with the client about another area of life within
the client feels more competents
Life Before the Problem - ANSWER: -can be experienced as validating by clients in the recognition that
life has not always been the way it is now
Listening to the Problem - ANSWER: -seeking to acknowledge what they are going through but not
asking questions that might lead them to expand on their problems
Listening with a 'Constructive Ear' - ANSWER: -listening through our clients talk for evidence of
resource and asking questions which are likely to elicit resourceful answers
Identifying Resources/Noticing and Naming - ANSWER: -help clients to notice and to name what they
do that is useful for them
-strategy questions
-identity questions
Strategy Questions - ANSWER: -what did you do to manage that?
-how did you do that?
-how did you get through that time?
