Norton & Company Inc., 2010 - 299 pages.
ISBN: 978-0-393-70634-5.
Solution-focused interviewing is based on the respectful assumption that clients have the inner resources to construct highly individualized and uniquely effective solutions to their problems. It is a great pleasure to welcome this valuable addition to the growing collection of writings worldwide about the use of the solution-focused approach.
With this clear and well-written book, Fredrike Bannink makes the solution-building approach accessible to many readers. It is a handbook that is meant for both students and advanced practitioners who are interested in sharpening their solution-focused skills.
The format of the book has something of a workshop-like quality. Exercises are offered throughout the book to give the reader the opportunity to integrate the solution-building approach through action learning. A wide variety of solution-focused techniques are introduced that allow the practitioner to reach out to clients to mobilize their resources. The 1001 solution-focused questions presented in this book will give the reader a very good idea of the importance of the precise use of language as a tool in solution-focused interviewing. Questions are included with which to negotiate the goal in the beginning of the therapy questions for measuring progress, and questions for finding out what successful steps clients have taken to achieve their goals.
Readers of 1001 Solution-Focused Questions: Handbook for Solution-Focused Interviewing are invited to open themselves to a "new light" on interviewing clients.