Table of Contents

PART I: STRENGTHS, SOLUTIONS, AND CHANGE: A THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION

Introduction
1. Focusing on Client Strengths: Theoretical, Empirical, and Practical Considerations
2. A Framework for a Solution-Oriented Approach to Working with Client Strengths

PART II: THE ELEMENTS OF SOLUTION-ORIENTED SOCIAL WORK PRACTICE

3. Co-Constructing Collaborative Relationships with Clients
4. Listen to the Client's Story and in the Process Define and Deconstruct the Primary Presenting Problem(s) from the Client's Perspective: First Steps in a Solution-Oriented Assessment
5. Define the Outcome Goal(s) from the Client's Perspective: Further Steps in Solution-Oriented Assessment
6. Identify and Amplify Client Strengths: Using the Languages of Strengths and Solutions to Achieve Pattern Change
7. Intervene to Disrupt the Problem-Maintaining Patterns of First-Order Change to Achieve Second-Order Change: Further Steps to Pattern Change
8. Working with Client Strengths in a Deficit-Oriented Environment
9. Continuing the Conversation, Evaluating Practice, and Terminating with Clients
10. Cultural Diversity and Cultural Strengths: Assets for Solution-Building in Social Work Practice

PART III: TREATMENT ISSUES AND APPLICATONS

11. A Solution-Oriented Approach to Group Work
Gil Greene, Amy Carek, and Mo Yee Lee
12. Families and Couples: A Practical Guide for Facilitating Change
John Sebold
13. A Solution-Oriented Approach to Crisis Intervention
14. A Solution-Oriented Approach to Working with Persons with a Severe Mental Disability
Gil Greene, David Kondrat, and Mo Yee Lee

15. Concluding Comments: The Strengths and Common Factors Revolutions