Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-303) and index.
Contents
It's Not My Therapy--It's the Client's Therapy -- A Golfer's Guide to Brief Therapy (With Footnotes for Baseball Fans) -- Some Stories Are Better Than Others: A Postmodern Pastiche -- Likely Future Trends and Attendant Ethical Concerns Regarding Managed Mental Health Care -- Dilemmas of Postmodern Practice Under Managed Care and Some Pragmatics for Increasing the Likelihood of Treatment Authorization / Steven Friedman -- Interview I: Brief Therapy and Managed Care / Jon Matthew Carlson -- Interview II: Autologue: Reflections on Brief Therapy, Social Constructionism, and Managed Care -- Solution-Focused Couple Therapy: Helping Clients Construct Self-Fulfilling Realities / Insoo Kim Berg -- Solution-ku -- A Single-Session Therapy Retold: Evolving and Restoried Understandings -- What Can We Learn From Milton Erickson's Therapeutic Failures? -- Unmuddying the Waters: A "Common Ground" Conference -- The Joy of Narrative: An Exercise for Learning From Our Internalized Clients / David Nylund -- Stage-Appropriate Change-Oriented Brief Therapy Strategies / Scott D. Miller -- The Last Session in Brief Therapy: Why and How to Say "When."