Working with Children and Teenagers Using Solution Focused Approaches: Enabling Children to Overcome Challenges and Achieve Their Potential

178 Pages·2011·0.81 MB·English

by  Judith Milner and Jackie Bateman

Working with
Children and
Teenagers Using
Solution Focused
Approaches
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Working with
Children and
Teenagers Using
Solution Focused
Approaches
Enabling Children to
Overcome Challenges and
Achieve their Potential
Judith Milner and Jackie Bateman
Jessica Kingsley Publishers
London and Philadelphia
First published in 2011
by Jessica Kingsley Publishers
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and
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To Ella and Evie, George and Lulu.
Acknowledgements
There are many people to whom we owe thanks for opportunities,
ideas, critical comments, practical help and enthusiastic support:
• Paul Edwards and Pat Bastian for patiently reading drafts.
• Alasdair Macdonald, Steve Myers and Lyndsey Taylor for
practical help, reading, encouragement, and unfailing wit and
good humour.
• Staff at Barnardo’s The Junction Project.
• Stephen Jones and Caroline Walton at Jessica Kingsley Publishers
for their encouragement and support.
And most importantly of all, the children and young people who
allowed us to use their stories. We have disguised these stories to protect
their confidentiality but hope that we still do justice to their strengths
and resources in solution finding.
Contents
1. Useful Conversations 9
2. Taking Children Seriously 27
3. Setting Achievable Goals 48
4. Finding Exceptions to Problems 72
5. Discovering Children’s Strengths 95
6. Scaling Goals, Progress and Safety 113
7. Putting it All Together 136
RESoURCES 162
REFEREnCES 166
SUbjECT InDEx 170
AUThOR InDEx 175