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Excerpt from Session by Jeffrey Guterman, Ph.D. www.jeffreyguterman.com Assistant Professor, Counseling Department www.barry.edu/counseling Barry University www.barry.edu on March 20, "Advanced Techniques for Solution-Focused Counseling" at the American Counseling Association's 2010 Conference in Pittsburgh. Video by Gemma Philage. Verbatim Transcript: Again, this may not, I just want to make a reminder that this [identifying an exception] may not happen in the first session. Just to go back to the "Co-constructing a Problem and Goal [stage]." In the first session, you may just get this far[Co-constructing a Problem and Goal]. Going back to the idea that it's [solution-focused counseling] not always brief. Sometimes you may need to spend several sessions on this stage. That's me, of course. I've had to spend, I always tell the story of the case where I was working with a gentleman who lost his wife and daughter in a car accident. And I was reluctant to go into identifying exceptions with the this man who was a closed person to begin with, never had counseling, and I allowed him to express his feelings for several sessions. And then he told me what a benefit this was for him, in the fourth session, and that he'd never done such a thing, and that it was so valuable to him. And what I realized, for me, was that what was happening in the session, itself, was an exception.

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