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What Do You Think About What the Team Said? The Solution-Focused Reflecting Team as a Virtual Therapeutic Community

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The authors describe the use of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with the use of a reflecting team and discuss the benefits they have found for the clients, the reflecting team, and the therapist.

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Johnson, C., Waters, M., Webster, D. et al. What Do You Think About What the Team Said? The Solution-Focused Reflecting Team as a Virtual Therapeutic Community. Contemporary Family Therapy 19, 49–62 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026158316207

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