"Core Competencies in the Solution-Focused and Strategic Therapies: Becoming a Highly Competent Solution-focused and Strategic Therapist, is the first book to address all of the core and clinical competencies involved in solution-focused/strategic practice, including developing and maintaining an effective therapeutic alliance with a client, effecting change, and successfully terminating treatment. It presents the essential knowledge, skills, and attitudinal components of each competency, with an emphasis on demonstrating then application of each competency in actual clinical practice. With extended case material and session transcripts, the reader will feel they are directly observing a master therapist"--Provided by publisher.