BRIEF Publications

Books

1. George, E., Iveson, C. and Ratner, H. (1990; Revised and expanded Edition 1999) Problem to Solution: Brief Therapy with Individuals and Families. London: BT Press   
   (translated into Hungarian, Japanese and Swedish)
2. Iveson, C. Whose Life?  (1990; revised and expanded 2001) Working with Older People London: BT Press   
   (translated into Swedish)
3. Iveson. C., George, E., Ratner, H.  (2012) Brief Coaching: a Solution Focused approach.  London: Routledge
   (translated into German, Hungarian, Danish and Finnish)
4. Ratner, H., George, E., Iveson, C.  (2012) Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 100 Key Ideas and Techniques.  London: Routledge   
   (translated into Chinese, Danish, Polish, Russian and Korean with Greek translation forthcoming)
5. Ratner, H., Yusuf, D. (2015) Brief Coaching with Children and Young People: a Solution Focused approach. London: Routledge   
   (translated into Finnish, German and Hungarian with Chinese version currently in translation)
6. Burgstaller, Susanne and Iveson, Chris. (2019) Team talk: Building Excellence with Solution Focused Skills. www.teamtalk.usolvit.com
7. Ajmal, A., Ratner, H. (2020) Solution Focused Practice in Schools: 80 Ideas and Strategies. London: Routledge
8. Yusuf, D. (ed.) (2021)  The Solution Focused Approach with Children and Young People: Current Thinking and Practice.  London: Routledge.

Articles & Chapters

1. Iveson, C. (1989). Brief solution focused therapy - a textbook treatment. Context. Winter 1989.
2. Ratner, H. (1989). Introducing Steve de Shazer. Context Autumn 1989
3. Iveson, C. (1990). Reluctant clients. Context. Spring 1990.
4. Iveson, C. (1992). A postcard from Vienna. Counselling News. Winter 1992.
5. Iveson, C. (1993). Hell’s bells. Community Psychiatric Nurse Journal. June 1993.
6. Iveson, C. (1994). Solution focused brief therapy: Establishing goals and assessing competence. British Journal of Occupational Therapy. 57 (3) 95-98.
7. Iveson, C. (1996) Solution focused brief therapy: Working with Young People. In Sigston, A. et al (eds) Psychology in Practice with Young People, Families and Schools. London: David Fulton
8. Ratner H. and Yandoli, D. (1996) Solution Focused Brief Therapy: A Co-operative Approach to Work with Clients. In Edwards, G. and Dare, C. (eds.) Psychotherapy, Psychological Treatments and the Addictions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
9. George, E. (1998) Das Problemfreie Gespräch: sich auf die Seite der Kompetenz stellen. (Problem-free talk: staying on the side of competence) In Eberling, W., Vogt-Hillmann, M. (eds) Kurzgefaßt: Zum Stand der lösungsorientierten Praxis in Europa Dortmund: Borgmann
10. Ratner, H. (1998) Solution Focused Brief Therapy: From Hierarchy to Collaboration. In Bayne, R., Nicholson, P. and Horton, (eds.) Counselling and Communication Skills for Medical and Health Practitioners, Leicester: BPS Books.
11. Iveson, C. (2002) Solution-focused brief therapy In Advances in Psychiatric Treatment vol. 8 PP 149 – 157
12. Iveson, C. (2003) Solution-Focused Couples Therapy. In O'Connell, B. and Palmer, S. (eds) Handbook of Solution-Focused Therapy London: Sage.
13. Ratner, H. (2003) Solution-Focused Therapy in Schools. In O'Connell, B. and Palmer, S. (eds.) Handbook of Solution-Focused Therapy London: Sage
14. George, E. (2005) Solution Focused Therapy in the UK In Solution News March 2005 1:1
15. George, E. (2005) Consultation: A Solution-focused Approach. In Southall, A (ed.) Consultation in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services. Oxford: Radcliffe
16. Iveson. C. (2005) Teaching the Difficult Craft of Not-knowing In Solution News Sept. 2005 1:3
17. Ratner, H. (2006) ‘The therapist doesn’t have the magic, the client has the magic!’ The legacy of Steve de Shazer, Context 84, April
18. George, E. (2007) Treading Lightly: the Solution Focused Approach in Practice In Counselling at Work Feb. 2007: Issue 55
19. Iveson. C. (2008) Strengths: How useful are they in solution focused practice? In Solution News April 2008 3:2
20. Shennan, G. and Iveson, C. (2008) What difference would that make? In Journal of Family Psychotherapy 19, 97-101.
21. George, E. (2010) Sparkling moments. In Nelson , T.S. (ed.) Doing something different: Solution focused brief therapy practices. New York: Routledge
22. Iveson, C. (2010) Over-developed emotions. In Nelson , T.S. (ed.) Doing something different: Solution focused brief therapy practices. New York: Routledge
23. Shennan, G., Iveson, C. (2011)  From solution to description: practice and research in tandem.  In Franklin, C., Trepper T., et al (Eds.)  Solution-focused Brief Therapy: A Handbook of Evidence-based Practice. New York: Oxford University Press
24. Iveson. C., George, E., Ratner, H.  (2012)  Brief Coaching: a solution focused approach In Coaching Today April 2012 17 - 20 
25. George, E. (2012)  Nur eine Menge Gerede! (Just a bunch of talk!)  In Vogt, M., Wolf, F., et al (Eds.) Begegnungen mit Steve de Shazer und Insoo Kim Berg  Borgmann: Dortmund
26. Ratner, H. (2012) Eine Frau mit vielen Facetten (A woman of many parts)  In Vogt, M., Wolf, F., et al (Eds.)  Begegnungen mit Steve de Shazer und Insoo Kim Berg  Borgmann: Dortmund
27. Iveson, C.  (2013)  Blue on blue: a love story In Hoyt, M. (Ed.) Therapist Stories of Inspiration, Passion, and Renewal  Routledge: New York
28. Iveson. C., George, E., Ratner, H.  (2014) Love is all around In  Hoyt, M., Talmon, M. (eds.) Capturing the moment. Crown House: Bethel.
29. George, E. (2014) The Preferred Future In Private Practice Winter 2014 18 – 19
30. Iveson, C. (2014) Fifty-one reasons to run away In Polgár, N. & Hankovszky, K. (Eds.) Brief and Simple: Solution Focus in Organisations. Solutionsurfers: Hungary
31. Ratner, H., George, E., Iveson, C.  (2014) Reflections from the founders of BRIEF: 25 years on: an interview.  In Child Care Practice. Vol 20 No 1 155 – 158
32. George, E., Iveson, C., Ratner, H. (2015) Solution Focused Brief Therapy  In Neukrug, E. S. (ed) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Theory in Counseling and Psychotherapy Sage: Thousand Oaks.
33. George, E. (2015) “Just a bunch of talk” in Vogt, M., Wolf, F., Sundman, P. and Dreesen, H. Solution Books: London.
34. Ratner, H. (2015) Insoo: a woman of many parts, in Vogt, M., Wolf, F., Sundman, P. and Dreesen, H. Solution Books: London.
35. George, E. (2015)  Von Milwaukee nach London In Burgstaller, S. (ed) Losungsfokus in Organisationen Carl Auer: Heidelberg
36. George, E. (2015)  Losungsfokus in einer Schule In Burgstaller, S. (ed) Losungsfokus in Organisationen Carl Auer: Heidelberg
37. Ratner, H. (2015)  Ein Coachinggesprach mit Steve de Shazer mit Kommentaren von Harvey Ratner In Burgstaller, S. (ed) Losungsfokus in Organisationen Carl Auer: Heidelberg
38. Iveson, C. (2015)  Der Kuschel-Fall – Ein Fall von Chris Iveson mit Kommentaren von Peter Szabo In Burgstaller, S. (ed) Losungsfokus in Organisationen Carl Auer: Heidelberg
39. Iveson, C. (2015)  Ein verdammt guter Boss – Ein Fall von Peter Szabo mit Kommentaren von Chris Iveson In Burgstaller, S. (ed) Losungsfokus in Organisationen Carl Auer: Heidelberg
40. George, E. (2015). Solution focused brief therapy [Streaming video]. SAGE Video.
41. Iveson, C. (2015)  Ein Austausch zwischen In Burgstaller, S. (ed) Losungsfokus in Organisationen Carl Auer: Heidelberg  
42. Iveson, C. (2015) “What are your best hopes?” Some developments in solution-focused brief therapy. Context. Winter 2015
43. Iveson, C. & McKergow, M. (2015) Brief Therapy: Focused Description Development. Journal of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. 2.1
44. Yusuf, D., George, E. (2016) Mentoring Children and Young People: a Solution Focused approach  In Coaching Today January 2016 29 – 33
45. George. E.  (2016)  Words. Journal of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy Vol 2, No 2, 2016  72 - 73
46. George, E.  (2017)  Can it really be that simple? In InterAction August 2017 Vol 9 No 1 http://sfio.org/the-journal/interaction-vol-9-no-1-aug-2017/ 
47. George, E.  (2017)  Are hopes different from dreams? Solution News  Vol 7 No 1 (Winter edition) 
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48. Iveson. C., George, E., Ratner, H.  (2018) Briefly does it.  Making Waves: Solution Focused Practice in Europe. Sofia: EBTA.
49. George, E. (2019)  Changing how we think about change. Journal of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy  Vol 3. No 1, 2019 7 - 9.
50. Iveson, C. (2019) Leaving no footprints.  Journal of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy  Vol 3. No 1, 2019 17 - 26.
51. Iveson, Chris (2019) However great the question, it’s the answer that makes the difference’ In Hoyt, Michael and Bobele, Monte [eds] Creative Therapy in Challenging Situations: Unusual Interventions to Help Clients London: Routledge
52. George, E., Yusuf, D. (2020)  A Solution-Focused approach to Coaching supervision. In Lucas, M. (ed.) 101 Coaching Supervision Techniques, Approaches, Enquiries and Experiments. London: Routledge.
53. George, E., Yusuf, D. (2020)  Solution-Focused Scaling Questions. In Lucas, M. (ed.) 101 Coaching Supervision Techniques, Approaches, Enquiries and Experiments. London: Routledge.
54. George, E., Yusuf, D. (2020)  Sparkling Moments: Instances and Exceptions. In Lucas, M. (ed.) 101 Coaching Supervision Techniques, Approaches, Enquiries and Experiments. London: Routledge.
55. Lawton Smith C., George E. (2020) Stopping and Starting. In Lucas, M. (ed.) 101 Coaching Supervision Techniques, Approaches, Enquiries and Experiments. London: Routledge.
56. Iveson, C. (2021) There's more to children than meets the eye. In Yusuf, D. (ed.) The Solution Focused Approach with Children and Young People: Current Thinking and Practice. London: Routledge.
57. Ratner, H. (2021) Put the Numbers in! The Value of Scale Questions. In Yusuf, D. (ed.) The Solution Focused Approach with Children and Young People: Current Thinking and Practice. London: Routledge.
58. George, E. (2021)  Building Co-operation and Engagement with Adolescents. In Yusuf, D. (ed.) The Solution Focused Approach with Children and Young People: Current Thinking and Practice. London: Routledge.
59. George, E. (2021)  Prefazione.  In Cannistra, Flavio, Piccirilli, Federico. Terapia Breve Centrata sulla Soluzione. Rome: EPC.
60. Iveson, Chris, McKergow, Mark. (2021) Terapia Breve: uno svillupo centrato sulla descrizione. In Cannistra, Flavio, Piccirilli, Federico. Terapia Breve Centrata sulla Soluzione. Rome: EPC.
61. George, E. (2026) Solution Focused Practice in UK Mental Health Settings - where next?  In Perry, Nick (ed.) (2026) Solution Focused Practice and Mental Health Crisis: Inclusive Support towards Safety and Hope. London: Routledge.