An exciting new trend - an emphasis on strengths and solutions rather than pathology - is sweeping the field of psychotherapy. With clarity and humour two clinicians trace the evolution of this approach, outline change-promoting assumptions, and then offer clear, concrete and detailed guidelines to translate theory into practice.

When therapy is solution-focused, assessment techniques become deliberate interventions that often negate the need for treatment beyond the first session. Therapists 'watch their language' and direct the conversation towards change, encouraging clients to look to the future with an eye to possibilities rather than problems. Clients learn to 'keep the ball rolling' maintaining and applying the therapeutic changes. Full of numerous case vignettes and longer case studies.

"This is a wonderful little book. It is practical, light-hearted, easy to read, and full of clinical examples." Karl Tomm, M.D.