Creating Sustainable Results with Solution-Focused Applied Psychology A Practical Guide for Coaches and Change Facilitators

This practical, evidence-based guide details how professional practitioners and change facilitators can integrate a solution-focused approach into their daily work and practice. While conventional therapeutic methods centre on the assumption that problems arise due to deficiencies, and therefore focus on diagnosis and subsequent treatment, the solution-focused approach is resource-based and operates on the assumption that human beings always have resources at their disposal to move forward. Free from the burden of detailed problem analysis, the solution-focused approach prioritizes clients’ hope for change in their lives and taps into the opportunities and resources available to bring about such transformation. The solution-focused practitioner is able to design incisive interventions that are flexible enough to adapt to any situation clients might find themselves in, and this book provides a practical formulation that is immediately applicable to all professional fields of applied psychology. Creating Sustainable Results with Solution-Focused Applied Psychology is important reading for therapists and coaches of all schools of thought, as well as anyone who practices as a professional change facilitator, including social workers, mediators, business leaders, and educators.

Introduction The SoFAP Essentials 1. The Basic Axioms 2. What Always Works in Good Facilitation? 3. The Power of Common Sense 4. The Three Mandates 5. The Seven-Step Tango 6. The Flow Chart 7. The Icons

Louis Cauffman is a clinical psychologist and business economist with a wide range of therapeutic training, ranging from Systemic Family Therapy to Ericksonian Hypnotherapy through all possible directions within the solution-focused approach. One of the first to introduce the solution-focused approach in Europe, Louis remains passionate in his further development of the solution-focused approach as an epistemological tool. Louis is a highly praised international consultant, coach, and trainer. More information can be found at www.louiscauffman.com