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Evan George addresses a concern that many share coming to the Solution Focused approach for the first time. Do the questions feel intrusive to people?

Solution Focused Practice is often described as a 'question-based' approach, although 'answer-based' may be a more accurate way of describing it. But are our questions enough Evan George asks.

Another in the 'What if . . . ?' series - 'what if people give us the answers that they assume we want to hear?'.

How is it that at the heart of a brief therapy is the necessity to 'go slow' - Evan George shares some thoughts.

Chris Iveson's clinical account in an extreme situation points us to the power of answers and of the questions that facilitate them.

Evan George thinks about the key question 'how can brief therapy lead to sustainable change?'.

A lovely exercise that you might like to try - with thanks to Ben Furman.

Another clinical description by Chris Iveson.

'Intuition' or 'reading between the lines' has long been seen as a key capacity of the good therapist. But what is it's place in Solution Focus Evan George asks (and tries to answer).

The question ‘how do we define Solution Focus’, what is in and what is out, what can you do and what can't you do, perhaps what must you do, continues to be of interest. Evan George tries to respond.