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What is the difference between Solution Focused Brief therapy and Solution Focused Coaching? Chris Iveson shares some thoughts.

Exploring the range of possibilities in the simple question 'How did you do that?', Evan George highlights some significant changes in the way that Solution Focused Therapy is conceptualised.

Centering the client's view is a crucial to Solution Focused practice. Evan George explores where this can lead us.

What do we do when our clients say to us 'but I really need to know why . . . . ' Evan George explores 6 conversational possibilities for Solution Focused practitioners.

Evan George responds to the idea of discharging people who are not making progress. In what circumstances and how might we do this and what are the risks?

Diana Conroy shares her experiences of using the Solution Focused approach in Afghanistan and Kenya, working with humanitarians.

Evan George extends the 'taxi-driver' analogy which many Solution Focused trainers use to explain the nature of the collaboration between client and worker in the approach.

Steve de Shazer in his early writings on SFBT not infrequently referred to Trance, often name-checking Milton Erikson as a key 'influencer'. So why has the concept receded into the background, almost invisible in modern thinking about the approach.

Words and the careful and purposeful use of language lie right at the heart of the Solution Focused approach and we fall into linguistic traps over and over as Evan George outlines.

Kerry Drummond from Perth in Australia shares her thinking about the impact on practitioners of the focus on resilience in clients.