Solutions Step by Step: A Substance Abuse Treatment Manual / Edition 1

by Insoo Kim Berg, Norman H. Reuss

Overview

A practical guide introducing the solution-focused approach to clinicians working with substance abusers.

Stressing solutions rather than pathology, clients' strengths and their strategies for past successes rather than their weaknesses or problems, this team utilizes a solution-building approach by discovering and exploring the ways substance abusers heal themselves. The book covers solution-focused therapy one step at a time. Bursting with case examples, quick tips, and questions "from the field," this is a reader-friendly manual.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393702514
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	11/17/1997
Edition description:	1 ED
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Insoo Kim Berg, MSW, codeveloped Solution-Focused Brief Therapy and is Director of the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Her most recent books are Children’s Solution Work (with Therese Steiner) and Interviewing for Solutions (with Peter de Jonge).

Editorial Reviews

"[A]n excellent reminder of the flexibility of the solutions approach and some very good and clear examples of how it has been used effectively to bring about change."

DECP Debate

The first part offers a step-by-step guide through a typical case, from the initial phone call to discharge. Part Two describes how to use a solution-focused approach with various treatment situations such as chronic relapse, DWI offenders, mandated clients, group therapy, and female substance abusers. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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