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Working with the Problem Drinker - Insoo Kim Berg, Scott D. Miller

Working with the Problem Drinker

A Solution-Focused Approach
Buch | Softcover
242 Seiten
1992
WW Norton & Co (Verlag)
978-0-393-70134-0 (ISBN)
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A detailed program for psychotherapists—the solution-focused, brief-therapy, problem-solving method of working with problem-drinker clients.
At a time when the accepted standard treatment for alcoholism is long-term and expensive, solution-focused therapy, as developed at the Brief Family Therapy Center in Milwaukee, offers a brief and cost-effective alternative. Insoo Kim Berg and Scott D. Miller believe that a focus on solutions, rather than pathology, is the most constructive strategy for working with problem drinkers; their foremost concern is with what works. To this end they don't reject traditional treatment programs; rather, they view them as one part of a flexible and multidimensional approach to alcohol abuse treatment.

The authors successfully utilize solution-focused therapy in their work with problem drinkers, but it is their philosophy of working with clients—and within clients' belief systems—to encourage change that is at the heart of their model. The model, grounded in the philosophy of solution-focused brief therapy, introduces a paradigmatic change in the approach to substance abuse treatment. Rather than treating a problem drinker, Berg and Miller work with clients to treat problem drinking. The authors' refreshing blend of respect for their clients and optimism about their ability to stop abusive drinking offers hope to clients who can't fit into traditional long-term programs or who have given up on themselves. This book shows how clients can be helped to construct a future where drinking or substance abuse is no longer a problem.

Solution-focused therapy, based on respect for and collaboration with the client, concentrates on success and solutions. Therapists develop goals with the client, rather than imposing "appropriate" treatment objectives. If one solution doesn't work, the technique—not the client—is blamed and client and therapist go on to "do something different." The authors' model is much more than a list of interventions; it is a multi-faceted approach to treatment, which can adapt to anything that works, whether brief therapy, AA, or more formal inpatient programs.

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). Scott D. Miller, Ph.D., practices solution-oriented therapy in Chicago.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.8.1992
Sprache englisch
Maße 157 x 236 mm
Gewicht 380 g
Themenwelt Medizin / Pharmazie Physiotherapie / Ergotherapie Rehabilitation
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-393-70134-4 / 0393701344
ISBN-13 978-0-393-70134-0 / 9780393701340
Zustand Neuware
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