Putting it All Together

In Chapter 2, I presented the overall solution-focused process, and in succeeding chapters, I have broken it down into its component parts. It is now time to put it back together again. In this chapter, I shall be focusing on how to use the whole approach in a structured fashion, session by session. To do this, it is important to be clear about the typical structures of first and follow-up sessions and how the work flows from one to the next. I shall begin with the simplest outlines of these structures, before fleshing these out in more detail, considering each stage of the session in turn. An extended case example will then illustrate ‘putting it all together’.