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Chapter 7.Other Useful Solution-Focused Questions

https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.books.9781615370986.al07

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Solution-Focused Follow-Up Sessions: What’s Better? | When Things Are Worse | Investigating for Details of Success: What Else, Who Else, How Else? | Questions That Amplify Ambivalence | Learning Exercise: Practicing Questions | References

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This chapter will discuss several other questions that are useful in solution-focused therapy. These questions can be divided into four main categories: 1) those that are used in follow-up sessions, 2) those that are used in times of distress or crisis and when things are worse, 3) those that dig for details of success, and 4) those that amplify ambivalence.

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