Abstract
In solution-focused brief therapy, the client is considered the expert in identifying his or her hopes and goals. The interviewer's role is to facilitate the articulation of hopes and the building of these hopes into change. This article shows how each client action presents multiple opportunities for solution-focused therapists to perform their role. Microanalysis of actual therapeutic dialogue, by two collaborating practitioners, reveals how opportunities are identified, how options for solution-focused responding are generated, how the preferred opportunities and responses are selected, and how rationales for the particular selection may be usefully shared and compared. The most practical application for this study of opportunities lies in the continual refinement of solution-focused interviewing skills in the contexts of training, supervision, and perpetual learning.
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