Keep in Mind to Focus First on What the Client Brings to the Table

Imagine an empty table like the one shown in Figure 32.1 . It is possible to put items on the table that you get from your client, and you can also put items there that emanate from yourself. There are specific approaches to SST such as narrative therapy ( Cooper, 2024 ), solution-focused brief therapy ( Schleider et al., 2021 ) and CBT ( Dryden, 2022a ). Using the table analogy, therapists who practise SST from the perspective of a specific approach tend to put that approach on the table first, and this influences what the client puts on the table subsequently. I will discuss this issue more fully in the following chapter. Figure 32.1 Table This figure shows a photo of a round table. https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" orientation="portrait" position="float" xlink:href=" https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781003741862/12fd7303-787a-4d54-80ec-d44dc496027c/content/fig32_1.tif "/>