Solution-Focused Brief Practice with Long-Term Clients in Mental Health Services

Traditional forms of mental health care can often center more on simply avoiding hospitalization than on promoting wellness by focusing on a patient's personal feelings and hopes. In fact these established methods can even have a dehumanizing and devaluing effect on a patient. <b>Solution-Focused Brief Practice with Long-Term Clients in Mental Health Services</b> is a practical introduction and guide that provides practitioners an alternative way of thinking about and working with individuals who have been long-term users of the mental health system. Through interviews case studies and actual client testimony this valuable text demonstrates the most effective ways to establish patient-centered conversations that forge collaborative relationships realize strengths and use them to move toward healing.