Introduction : competency-based future-oriented therapy / Michael F. Hoyt -- On the importance of keeping it simple and taking the patient seriously : a conversation with Steve de Shazer and John Weakland -- Solution talk : the solution-oriented way of talking about problems / Ben Furman and Tapani Ahola -- Narrative intentions / Gene Combs and Jill Freedman -- Some questions (not answers) for the brief treatment of people with drug and alcohol problems / Scott D. Miller -- "On track" in solution-focused brief therapy / John L. Walter and Jane E. Peller -- Basic elements in the brief therapies / Richard Fisch -- Single-session solutions / Michael F. Hoyt -- Coauthoring a love story : solution-oriented marital therapy / William Hudson O'Hanlon and Patricia O'Hanlon Hudson -- Entering one another's worlds of meaning and imagination : dramatic enactment and narrative couple therapy / Sallyann Roth and Richard Chasin -- Staying simple, staying focused : time-effective consultations with children and families / Steven Friedman -- Solving the unknown problem / Eric Greenleaf -- Solution-focused therapy with a case of severe abuse / Yvonne M. Dolan -- Tales of the body thief : externalizing and deconstructing eating problems / Jeffrey L. Zimmerman and Victoria C. Dickerson.
