This book provides a summary of principles and skills of "solution talk" brief counselling. The explanations of solution based brief counselling distinguish it from pathology based, problem-focused and problem-solving approaches.
[amazon.com][amazon.co.uk]
A solution based approach invites counsellors to "abandon expertise in 'diagnosis'" while still retaining core counselling skills and values. Skills of listening for 'competence' and solution oriented statements instead of 'deficit' descriptions, looking for more objective statements rather than 'interpretations' and looking for 'exceptions' where the client "stood up to the problem".
