Women’s Perspectives on the Solution Focused Approach: International Applications and Interventions

This book is a distinctive collection of narratives of female Solution Focused practitioners, from across six continents, sharing their unique ways of using the approach at personal, professional, and social levels.

Nineteen female practitioners from around the world share their practice and experience, and reflect on how their gender has influenced their work within different cultural, sociological, and socio-economic contexts. The editors introduce the concepts of a Solution Focused DNA and then encourage the contributors as well as the readers to answer questions such as: What are the common characteristics that are a part of your Solution Focused DNA? Which of them are related to gender, which of them to the Solution Focused Approach, and which of them to your sociocultural context? Contributors also provide insights on how they work from the Solution Focused approach integrating their own creative styles using embodiment and dance, animal assisted therapy, and humour. The chapters in this book explore a wide variety of themes and contexts, including shelters, trauma, the LGBTQ community, prisons, schools, refugee camps, veterans, the medical field, research, children, and more.

This book will inspire practitioners regardless of gender to reflect on their own practice and to use and apply the Solution Focused Approach in innovative and creative ways.

Anne-Marie Wulf is a social worker and family therapist that lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark. She’s the director of the Danish Solution Focused Institute and the current president of the European Brief Therapy Association (EBTA). She has authored and contributed to several books on the Solution Focused approach.

Dr Jacqui von Cziffra-Bergs is a practicing psychologist from Johannesburg, South Africa, and the director of the Solution Focused Institute of South Africa. She was an associate professor at the University of Johannesburg and has written 5 books on the Solution Focused approach.