Dr. Ellen Quick has written a landmark book in solution-focused and strategic therapy that is the first to address all of the core and clinical competencies involved in solution-focused and strategic practice, including developing and maintaining an effective therapeutic alliance with a client, effecting change, and then successfully terminating treatment with that client. It presents the essential knowledge, skills, and attitudinal components of each competency, with an emphasis on demonstrating the application of each competency in actual clinical practice. This book describes how highly competent solution-focused and strategic therapists '¬Slead from behind,'¬ amplify client strengths, and shift gears when something is not working well enough. With extended case material and session transcriptions, the competencies of solution-focused and strategic therapy come alive, as if the reader is directly observing a master therapist.