Working with Violence and Confrontation Using Solution Focused Approaches : Creative Practice with Children, Young People and Adults.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Milner, Judith
Other Authors: Myers, Steve, Turnell, Andrew
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Working with Violence and Confrontation Using Solution Focused Approaches: Creative Practice with Children, Young People and Adults by Judith Milner and Steve Myers; Chapter 1
  • Introduction; Solution focused approaches; Solution focused explanations for violent behaviour; Resilience; The Signs of Safety approach; Chapter 2
  • Understanding the Position of Each Person; Respectfulness; Problem-free talk; Listening; Building partnership; Talking with people who can't or won't talk; Do's for constructive conversations; Don'ts for constructive conversations.
  • Chapter 3
  • Finding Exceptions or Unique Outcomes to Violence and ConflictSeparating the person from the problem; Where exceptions are relevant to the problem; Where the exceptions don't seem relevant; Where there are no exceptions at all; Recording signs of safety; Conclusion; Chapter 4
  • Setting Achievable Goals; Defining goals; Setting safety goals; Preferred futures; The miracle question ; Group miracle questions; Shortened circular miracle question; Where the problem is denied; Where there are conflicting goals; People with learning difficulties.
  • Chapter 5
  • Discovering Strengths and ResourcesTurning deficits into resources; Starting a strengths conversation; Strengths in adversity; Complicating stories; Group strengths and resources; Finding strengths in people who are socially isolated; Strengths that build safety; Chapter 6
  • Scaling Safety and Progress; Scaling questions; Scaled questions for safety goal setting; Questions for assessing safety; Questions that assess likelihood of change; Assessing progress; Being creative; Chapter 7
  • Ending a Session; Deciding on tasks; Evaluating the session and ending it; Feedback.
  • Subsequent sessionsWhen things are better; When things are the same; When things are worse; When things are mixed; Chapter 8
  • Groupwork; Using connections; Advantages of groupwork; Setting up a group; Determining group rules; Groupwork practice principles; Managing difficult group members; Flexible groupwork in testing situations; Forgotten victims; References; Index.