Escalating Interventions for Destructive/Harmful Behavior in Relationships Clarify the limits and requests in the area of dangerous behavior. Clarify accountability. Make sure each person is… Read More »Escalating Interventions
Externalize symptoms and problems and ideas about blame, determinism and “unchangeable” problem identity ideas. Motto: The person is never the problem; the problem is the… Read More »Externalizing
Summarize, validate and soften This strategy ensures that the therapist is listening adequately, as well as validating each person without taking sides. In addition, through… Read More »Solution Oriented Strategies with Couples
For the client *How will we know when it,s time for you to leave therapy, when we,ve been successful? [Ask for a video description or… Read More »Brief Therapy Assumptions and Assessment
The idea is not to convince clients that they have solutions and competence, but to ask questions and gather information in a way that convinces… Read More »Evoking Client Solutions and Competence
Achievable goals consist of clients, actions or conditions that can be brought about by clients’ actions. Often they include time elements: how often (frequency); when… Read More »Setting Goals
To encourage folks to visit my website, I am making the following handouts available. New handouts will be posted at irregular intervals. You may use… Read More »Handouts
Bill is an information junkie. He loves almost any piece of paper with writing on it and is tireless in his collecting of articles, books,… Read More »Bill’s Attic
THE ART OF THERAPEUTIC PROBLEM SOLVING Depression, jealousy, couples conflicts, obsessive-compulsive disorder-such broad labels do very little to point a therapist quickly toward the rapid,… Read More »Workshops for the Psychotherapist with Bill O’Hanlon
About Bill and his work Who is Bill Bill O’Hanlon is a psychotherapist who was a developer of Solution-Oriented Therapy and a founder of Possibility… Read More »Bill and Steffanie O’Hanlon at Possibilities