The text presents a step-by-step description of how to build solutions with clients collaboratively, helping students to see how to apply the skills when working with clients. * Generous excerpts from actual interviews illustrate solution-focused techniques. * The text provides readers with interviewing protocols and other tools for use with clients. * The authors include outcome data about the usefulness of the approach with a wide range of clients and client difficulties. * The Appendix provides very helpful forms and questionnaires that students or professionals can use with clients. The DVD features interviews by Insoo Berg and Peter DeJong.