It Is More Than the Miracle Question: Deconstructing Solution Focused Therapy

by Mark Gillen, Blake Mayes

Overview

It is More Than the Miracle Question aims to help counselors, and specifically school counselors, figure out how to utilize a theory, mindset, or belief system in their everyday work with clients. These ideas on how to think like a solution focused counselor were born at the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. This book is not a strict academic text but instead offers insights and ideas for utilizing Solution Focused Therapy based on training at the Brief Family Therapy Center, years of supervised practice using Solution Focused therapy, readings, research, and decades of training others on how to utilize Solution Focused Therapy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781837085316
Publisher:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication date:	05/19/2025
Series:	Research, Theory, and Practice Within Academic Affairs
Pages:	52
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.11(d)

About the Author

Dr. Mark Gillen trained at the Brief Family Therapy Center and has practiced Solution Focused Therapy (SFT) since the mid-1980s. Since 2005, he has worked as a professor at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, USA, where he trains school counselors.

Blake Mayes has been an educator for nearly a decade, first serving as a deaf/blind intervener and then as a high school counselor for the last five school years. He received his MSE in counseling from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, USA.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Start at the Beginning
Chapter 3. Solution Focused Beliefs That Guide Our Practice
Chapter 4. Now What? SFT Techniques
Chapter 5. Be Gillen